I just had to make sure. Is it possible he did do a film project and he mistook it for Kong in his old age? Wasn't there some film with a similar plot/title with a man in a suit? (No '76 jokes, fellers).

"I want Kong to be the fiercest, most brutal, monstrous damned thing that has ever been seen."

- Merian C. Cooper, in argument with Willis H. O'Brien.