Entertainment Weekly just chatted with LOTR trilogy director Peter Jackson who says his upcoming "King Kong" is no mere remake - "We are not reinventing it. Our story follows the same structure. It satrts in New York, goes to Skull Island, and there's dinosaurs on the island. Then it comes back to New York and there's the Empire State Building and the biplanes and the whole thing".
They're also trying to make this version "emotionally truthful. I put that ahead of anything else, including technology and the realism of the effects. Everybody's image of 'King Kong' is that it's this amazing beauty-and-the-beast love story. And when you look at the original film, there is as sense that Kong is feeling an attraction toward Ann-probably the first empathy he's felt in his life toward another living creature. But Ann is not giving him a thing. She just looks at him as an object of horror the entire time. She screams at him, she's terrified. Her relationship with Kong doesn't go beyond that. We're having a lot of fun making it more psychologically real"
Meanwhile adventure novelist Clive Cussler's displeasure with how his "Sahara" is being adapted into a movie has turned legal. The IMDb reports that Cussler has sued Philip Anschutz's Crusader Entertainment in an effort to halt the shooting of the movie, maintaining that "his deal with Crusader gave him unqualified script approval and that the screenplays that have been submitted to him have been unacceptable". Cussler revealed to The Denver Post that "They've sent me seven scripts, and I've inserted each one in the trash can".
Crusader has now counter-sued, accusing Cussler of delaying production of the film. In its complaint the company said, "To option the rights to the entire [Dirk Pitt] series, Crusader paid Cussler an extremely handsome price -- even by Hollywood standards." Crusader also accuses Cussler of attempting to "foment opposition to the film among his fans, and to organize a fan campaign to coerce Crusader into letting Cussler write the screenplay
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