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King Kong had numerous VHS and LaserDisc releases of varying quality prior to receiving an official studio release on DVD. In 1984, King Kong was one of the first films to be released on LaserDisc as part of the Criterion Collection, and was the first movie to have an audio commentary track included. [127]
Starting in 1996, artist/writer Joe DeVito began working with the Merian C. Cooper estate to write and/or illustrate various books based on the King Kong character. The first of these was an origin story labeled as an authorized sequel/prequel to the 1932 novelization of King Kong called Kong: King of Skull Island.
King Kong premiered at New York City on December 5, 2005, [3] and was theatrically released in Germany and United States on December 14. The film garnered positive reviews, and eventually appeared in several top ten lists for 2005; it was praised for the special effects, performances, sense of spectacle and comparison to the 1933 original ...
Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a reboot [5] [6] of the King Kong franchise and the second film in the Monsterverse, serving as the 11th film in the King Kong franchise.
O'Brien and Delgado's first work together was in The Lost World, but they became famous a few years later with King Kong (1933). Kong's success was followed by a failed sequel, Son of Kong. They also worked on movies like The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) and others. The Perils of Pauline (1967) - gorilla costume creator (uncredited) [3]
Dan Stevens. Dan Stevens will star in an undisclosed role. Stevens is best known for his work in Downton Abbey (2010-2015), Legion (2017-2019), The Guest (2014) and Beauty and the Beast (2017).
King Kong, also referred to simply as Kong, is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933.Kong has been dubbed the King of the Beasts, [17] and over time, it would also be bestowed the title of the Eighth Wonder of the World, [18] a widely recognized expression within the franchise.
Writer Max Borenstein stated that the Monsterverse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla.Borenstein credits Legendary Entertainment's founder and then CEO Thomas Tull as the one responsible for the Monsterverse, having acquired the rights to Godzilla and negotiated the complicated rights to King Kong.