Fox's King Kong (Animated movie)

[detective392]

A CGI/animated "King Kong" is making it's way up Fifth Avenue. That is all...

Points to anyone who read that headline and remember it as one of the best accidentally-funny lines of dialogue in movie history: In the 1933 classic, King Kong's on a rampage, and a group of cops hear a calm voice on the radio, "Kong is making his way up Fifth Avenue...That is all." A giant ape is on the loose, isn't that enough?!?

But actually, Kong is making his way to the multiplex, again. Deadline Hollywood Daily reported Tuesday that Fox Animation will be bringing the movies' biggest ape back for a new CGI adventure, "told from the ape's point of view'" (which means, what, more banana breaks? A chance to sit and ponder that pterodactyl he wrestled from the sky?).


God knows, Peter Jackson's 2005 remake -- the second, after the 1876 Dino De Laurentiis-produced debacle -- didn't add anything special to the story, aside from a more human/ape-y performance from Andy ("motion capture guy") Serkis as Kong. Yet we have to wonder, will CGI do the big guy any more justice? Classic monsters haven;t benefited from the genre; animation didn't help Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame." And "Igor" a few years back was a bit brain-dead.


if we don't see Kong, in any year, tromping through real new York city streets, will it feel the same? Or will animated beauty kill the beast?

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/sho...ue-that-is-all

[Mandalorian]

Don't bash it until you have a good reason. That's all I'll say, because this could be a fantastic idea, or a very stupid one.

[OrlandoEastwood]

1876? Was the first remake made before the original 1933 film?

[Spidey Blu]

Heh, for some reason I was under the impression this would be a tv series.

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Spidey Blu

Heh, for some reason I was under the impression this would be a tv series.

Yeah at first I thought it was a new Kong TV series but found out it's actually an animated movie.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by detective392

Yeah at first I thought it was a new Kong TV series but found out it's actually an animated movie.

I thought it was the old animated series Fox ALREADY did in the 90's, but...

So, I'm wondering whether this was the talked about Godzilla-ripoff Kong that we were going to get if Emmerich/Devlin's hadn't flopped, and Peter Jackson's hadn't been greenlit?
Does anyone remember whether that was Fox, and this's just an expiration-date quickie?

[Battra92]

Peter Jackson's King Kong was okay to watch once. It was alright and I don't even own it on DVD let alone Blu-Ray. Unless someone gives it to me free, I will never own it.

The original 1933 I have on VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, the R2 DVD set including the colorized version and the Blu-Ray. My dad owns the VHS and the colorized VHS along with the DVD. My brother even owns it on CED!

This film will probably be as forgotten as that musical version of Kong that was released DTV back in the 90s.