RE: Jackon's King Kong Remake And Its Dinosaurs

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 Pluto77189@aol.com wrote:
> Has anyone seen the initial statue Weta came up with?  Apparantly, he
> was turned down by the studios, as King Kong was going to cost too
> much to produce, and they didn't want to risk it.  He had a statue
> created, showing kong tangled up with three T-rexish dinosaurs--looked
> really dramatic, and really cool.  After being denied Kong, he took on
> an even more risky, and much more expensive project.  being that
> Newline's $300 million investment has cashed in about $1.8 BILLION so
> far(and it's only 2/3 complete), they probably feel a bit more
> comfortable shelling out a few hundred mill to jackson for Kong.  I
> can't wait to see the monsters he comes up with.

Yup, I posted it when I started this thread:

 http://www.wetafx.co.nz/workshop/images/pplarge/kong_lrg.jpg