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King Kong (2005 film)

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« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2007, 01:22:30 am »


Question: What was most important to you in adapting the material?

Jackson: Well, I think what was most important was to have people be able to connect with Kong, both in the way that he is portrayed in his performance, his character and also just technically to make him believable. I knew going into this that the movie was ultimately going to live or die on whether you believed in Kong and whether your suspension of disbelief - - because all movies are a suspension of disbelief and you hope that people will engage in the film on some level and be prepared to go along for the ride. The biggest concern that I had in terms of the film completely failing would be if Kong wasn't believable, if you didn't connect with him. It was a difficult thing to pull off. It was much more difficult than the Gollum character that we did on Lord of the Rings. Gollum talked the whole time, so much of his character and so much of his role in the story and what he was able to be presented with his dialogue. And you got to know him a lot through what he said and yet Kong is completely mute. He has so much screen time and so many close-ups as a character. He's not only mute but we deliberately reined him in and didn't want him to express very much most of the time. So I think that was the biggest challenge, the thing that we were most scared about.

Question: Talk about working with working with Naomi and getting the performance out of her with Kong not really there?

Jackson: Well, Naomi was our first and only choice for the role of Anne. I think we responded to her because she's so honest as an actor. She doesn't pretend in the films that she does. She makes it as believable as possible. She's one of those actors that if she's shedding tears in a scene, it's because she's thinking of something that makes her cry. She's really in the moment and I don't know what it is, how she does that but she's utterly believable which obviously for this particular role in this particular movie was essential for us. Naomi was also hugely helped by Andy Serkis. I think people would obviously think of Andy being the guy who does the motion capture for Kong which he does. And he's in a suit and he acts out the role and we did all the motion capture of the character with Andy and then that was put into the animation and into the performance. But for me, as the filmmaker, possibly one of Andy's greatest contributions was actually being on set with the actors when they originally shot the scenes. Now none of that was recorded for Andy. He wasn't captured on set. That was done in post production. He wasn't even filmed. It was like Andy was just there for the other actors. And every single shot in the movie, and I don't think there's an exception, I really don't, every close-up of Naomi when she's looking at Kong, she's actually looking at Andy. Andy would get himself into her eye line so that whenever she looked at Kong's face, that would be where Andy was which was in a cherry picker, up a ladder or suspended on something. He was always there and he was acting his heart out as Kong. I think that was hugely beneficial for Naomi obviously and the other actors. And it was also great for me because it was the beginning of us creating Kong as a character too. I was able to talk to Andy when we were doing those scenes. It wasn't just Naomi and me. It was Naomi, Andy and me. It was the three of us that we were able to rehearse the scene and block the scene and talk about how Kong would be behaving. And it was the beginning of the creation of that character that would then take it through the motion capture and into the animation and finally into the film. So it was a hue contribution, more than what people would imagine from Andy.

Question: Is the Bad Taste/Dead Alive type of filmmaker still inside you?

Jackson: Oh, absolutely. I hope one day that I'll get to make another low budget horror film. I'd love to. And I certainly feel in a way now that I just want to rest and recuperate from this last 10 years of filmmaking and be able to do some more interesting things, other low budget ideas and horror movies and other types of films. It's kind of weird but it's only just recently that I've realized that for the last 10 years, I've just had two projects. I've had The Lord of the Rings and King Kong because we were originally trying to make King Kong after The Frighteners. So that was back in 1995 into 96 and then that got canned and we went into Lord of the Rings and then we went back to King Kong again. So I've had two projects in the last 10 years so it's an exciting time to be able to rest up and recover a little bit now and just think of other ideas, think of things beyond those two projects.

Question: You're still producing Halo?

Jackson: Yeah.

Question: What attracted you to Halo?

Jackson: I'm a fan of the game.

Question: But video game movies suck.

Jackson: They do.

Question: So what will be different?

Jackson: Hopefully it won't suck.

Question: But why not direct?

Jackson: I want a break. I want to have the fun but not the hard work. I just want to be part of the creative team but not actually have the pain.

Question: Is there a director?

Jackson: Not yet, no. We're talking to some people but we're going to be shooting that next year.

Question: Should we plan an Oscar party?

Jackson: I don't think so. I don't think these are the types of films that get Oscar attention. That was never the intention with Kong. I don't necessarily think that will be the case.

Question: Are you doing Lovely Bones?

Jackson: Yeah, that's the plan.

Question: Have you started thinking cast?

Jackson: No, no. I'm just going to have a break first and then we'll do the script to that.

Question: Any special features on the DVD?

Jackson: Well, I think there's a two disc one coming out for sure and then if there's an extended one, it'll probably be three or four discs if they do that.

Question: Are you surprised with the positive reaction to the Halo script?

Jackson: Well, I'm pleased, yeah. You never know what to expect.

Question: How did you lose the weight, special diet?

Jackson: No, it was just cutting out junk food.


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