Jack Black to be lead in new King Kong movie!
 

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/n...?news_id=15720
When I first saw he was playing the lead I thought it was the Jeff Bridges' 1976 part.
It's not, though. It's from the 1933 version and he plays the filmmaker that inadvertently takes the beauty to meet the beast.

I have confidence Jack can go beyond his comedic style and pull this off.

What do you guys think?

I'm all for it. I think Jack Black is going to be great. I have a feeling Jack and Peter will work well together. I have to reason to think that.....just a feeling.

I don't quite understand why we even NEED another King Kong movie.

I'll wager $20 that Jack Black somehow turns the entire movie into one big fart-joke.

I agree that he could be good in that role.

I've got faith in Peter Jackson's directing that he can keep Jack Black's manic tendencies under control. Still, I dunno about Black as a serious actor. I would have liked to have seen him in at least one serious role before this.

I agree! Oh well, Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler have proven that they can do serious roles, so ya never know.

-Lasereth

I've never been a big fan of Jack Black, but I do trust Peter Jackson's directing, so I'm sure it will all fall into place. It does make you wonder where exactly the film is going though. :)

I just can't picture Jack Black doing anything other than comedy. Even when he's playing his music, its mostly for the laughs. It could work, we'll just have to wait and see.

Agreed, put him in the fucking suit so we don't need to see his cocky face.

But, we'll have to wait and see...

Peter Jackson? But King Kong wasn't a Trilogoy.

I thought it meant that Jack Black would be playing King Kong.

I've only seen Jack in one serious role, but even then he was a twitcher.
The Jackal

Everytime I read something about this King Kong movie.....

I don't know, but it feels like it's the result of bad poker game and alcohol.

Fuck that was poor movie, the only redeeming feature was seeing Jack Black get both his arms blown off by Willis.

I don't get it. Hes not a comic actor. If he were, he'd be funny. :|

Somehow I think the mad kiwi will pull it off- I mean he's spent a career on the impossible, so why not?

I'm not as optimistic as most of you. Wrong actor, and a movie that really doesn't need remaking.

I'm going on a limb to say this movie's gonna suck.

I thought King Kong was the lead in KING KONG...

the new trailor looks awesome!

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I find it interesting that he has chosen to go back to the source rather than do something like was done in the 70s remake...

...and the trailer looks pretty good. I think fans of King Kong are going to love it. Anyone younger than 35 is going to hate it.

Trailer looks pretty good. I don't know about Jack Black though. He could do it really well but I think there are plenty of other actors that could have done it just fine.

Ok so there seems to be two issues in this thread; Why Jack Black, Why a remake?

Why Jack Black?

Why the hell not Jack Black? Comedy is hard, drama is (relatively) easy. Nearly every comic actor at some point in their career has done a serious dramatic role and for the most part they have been successful. Comic actors have timing, they understand inflection and pace, its actually quite easy to reel in the zaniness and just play it straight. Going the other direction is MUCH more difficult. Say for example Adrien Brody was going to play a zany inventor with crazy hair and a funny catch phrase... I would be far more afraid of that movie than this one, going from Drama to Comedy is a whole other animal. Just off the top of my head, about the only actor I can think of who moved succesfully from Drama to Comedy (and back again) is Chris Walken.

And another thing; why is it that the movie going public is under the impression that actors make (create) movies?

They're just actors, they read lines off of a page and walk (or run) from point X to point Y when the director tells them to. If the director does not like the way they walked or talked... they make them do it again. It's just that simple. Directors, Writers and Editors make movies, the actors are just the floor sweepers in the movie making factory.

Do you seriously think that Peter Jackson is going to let JB slip a poopie joke into the dialogue and PJ won't notice? Is he going to make funny faces at the camera and the editor WON'T leave that footage on the cutting room floor... c'mon, he's a fucking actor. He does what he is told and he goes home.

How much do you think Tom Cruise is really going to contribute to War of the Worlds? I'll tell ya... nothing. It's nothing more than pure marketing to have Tom Cruise's name and face on the movie poster. Tom Green could have acted the role just has compentently (maybe that's a stretch) because at the end of the day W of the W is about the explosions, the special effects and the big scary Aliens. I find it so sad that these days mere actors have been elevated almost the point of minor deities just becase they have a pretty face and can deliver a line on cue... I'll say it again, they're just fucking actors.

Peter Jackson is going to make a good movie.

Why Remake it?

For the same reason that William Shakespeare's plays have been produced and staged continuosly for over 500 years; some stories are so good that they deserve to be retold over and over as each generation comes of age.

Even without the new CGI tech and fancy blue-screen editing, remaking a classic movie like King Kong would still be a valid candidate for remake. SImply because it is a greatm, solid story about man vs nature.

Did Bewitched need to be remade? No. Should Godzilla have been remade? Probably not in the form it was (with Mathew Broderick).

But some stories deserve to be retold over and over and over again. Not just because "hollywood is out of ideas" but because a good story can be reinterpreted in exciting new ways.

And that is what a good director and screenwriter are all about my friends.

The trailer looks good and Jack Black seems to be working out pretty good.

Too bad, I won't be able to watch him without hearing "Barry (Let 'em riot. We're Sonic-fuckin'-Death Monkey)" in my head.

Call me stupid but I didn't know there was dinosaurs in King Kong.

Wait wait wait, Adam Sandler , pull off a serious role. What, where when?! Are you talking about punch drunk love or spanglish... Hold on a second, gag reflex.

Jack could pull it off, He's got at least some depth compared to others, Tenatious D anyone?

Yeah, I thought the trailer was looking pretty good until this happened. Then I started humming the Jurrasic Park theme.

There were dinos in the 1932 original.

---Jurrasic Park had a theme?

Sure. Scored by the famous John Williams. We played this particular gem for a band concert one year.

Click here for MIDI goodness.

The first bit, I don't remember all that well, but once it gets going, you'll recognize it.

Wonderboy vs King Kong !!!

Shows what I know!

There's a monkey in this thread!

King Kong is an ape... not a monkey. You monkey.

This is just what we need. ANOTHER remake. How about some original ideas for a change!

Wasn't talking 'bout Kong. :D ;)