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So do I.
They should use it (or a variation on it) for the actual teaser poster.
Just add "The Eighth Wonder of the World".
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I knew I should have qualified my statement by admitting Watts has a nice rack. Then again, after doing a Google search it looks like she may have been augmented at some point.
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If she had been augmented before 21 Grams then it was a pretty subtle augmentation.
But I'm not just referring to the nudity, she gave one hell of a performance in that film.
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So this is going to cost $200 million? Wow...either that is a tad too much for this story or this is going to be something to see.
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Eh. Costs seem to be going up on movies. Maybe it's inflation, but it seems $200M is the new $100M.
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And those might be New Zealand dollars, which I had an exchange rate below Canada's last time I checked.
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Oh yeah, that's who Adrien Brody is...! :b
I'm looking forward to this -- I just hope they totally junked the last script. Having Jack Driscoll jump in a plane and try to fight off the bi-planes attacking Kong is the wrong way to go. IMO.
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130 mil......it still seems a lot for the fairly simple Kong story I know so it will be very interesting to see what Jackson & co. have in mind.
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LOTR had much more opulent epic set pieces, epic battles, casts of thousands to clothe etc. etc. and those movies cost roughly 100 mil per film (now that was a bargain), I still say, considering the basic story of Kong, they must have some interesting ideas in mind.
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$130M isn't
that much. For instance, the first Spider-Man cost the same and most of it was shot in ordinary locations and sets with only 3 or 4 action pieces. By contrast, the sequel cost $200M.
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Even if the final budget of each LOTR film was 150 I can still see that in realistic terms considering the massive scale of the story's plot & setting, but I
still say that they must have something rather different in mind than the original Kong's basic story line required, recreating 1930's NY and Scull Island (or whatever you wish to call it) and the creatures is going to cost a lot of cash, yes, but in NZ considering the facilities that they already have at the ready 130 million will go a looong way.....again, it will be interesting to see what they have up their sleaves.
In New Zealand it sure is, that's my point.
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Anyone else read over at IGN that Jack Driscoll's character is now a NY playwright?
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/544/544088p1.html
That's a bit of a stretch (not knowing the setup) but I guess they made it due to Brody's unaction hero-like physique. How does a playwright fit in? Is Jack supposed to be taking a vacation?
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I raised an eyebrow at that as well. Far cry from a WWI flying ace, as Driscoll was in the old Jackson/Walsh
Kong draft that's still floating around on the net. They said they were completely rewriting the thing, and I guess they weren't kidding.
For my part, I'm very happy with all the casting (yes, even Jack Black). Brody is a terrific actor, above all, and I don't doubt he'll do a good job. If LOTR should have taught us anything, it's to trust PJ's casting.
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Me too. I don't understand the general dislike of Black's casting. He's not the lead, he's the film director, a showman, an extravagent adventurer who brings marvels of the world to people in New York. The 1997 script described him as a cross between Orson Welles and John Ford. I can see Black filling that role perfectly.
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Better than that, he's been giving them nearly daily video updates, showing us the sets, the actors in costume, etc. Has a major director ever taken better care of his fan base than PJ?
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Those set diaries are great! Hopefully, we'll see them on the DVD.
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King Kong 2005
For a real treat in the process of film making check out:
www.kongisking.net
Peter Jackson is letting us watch him do the remake with video almost days after it happens.
It's like an open Set. Actors, Crew and Location all on video. Check out why they don't need storyboards anymore, budget problems on a day to day basis. Lot of fun.
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). I can now say I check Kong Is King several times a day just like TORn.
