Empire Online exclusively spoke to director Peter Jackson recently about "King Kong" and he revealed some juicy scoopage about the film which is scheduled to hit theatres next month:

- As of Thursday, he's still finishing editing the film, its sound mix and music. They did change Kong after the teaser trailer, making him older, reducing his snaggle tooth in size and making his face narrower.

- Jackson was concerned to ensure that Kong is a wild animal, not a friendly gorilla. "The danger of it would have been turning him into Mighty Joe Young. You get to like him, you get to meet him and from that point on everything is humanised. We haven't done that."

- One of the most difficult scenes was the Kong vs. 3 T-Rexes scene that rages across Skull Island, Jackson says, "It ended up about 300 shots long, about nine minutes. It has taken us the entire duration of the project to do. The fight sequence ended up very elaborate, involving Kong and the dinosaurs swinging like a pendulum over the chasm, entangled in these vines, and Ann is also entangled and Kong is trying to protect her. It all ends up in a swamp."

- The culture on Skull Island has elements of Mayan, Aztec, Melanesian and Micronesian cultures - but Jackson thinks that the islanders have gone "crazy" from living there.

For more scoopage on the film, click here.

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