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IzzyVanHalen	Hammer's KING KONG. A new screenplay by CHFB member IzzyVanHalen.	Lead	[-]
Dec 10 11 5:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hi guys! No, I'm not dead. Just... lurking. In any case, I thought it was high time I posted something on the good old CHFB and so I'd like to share with you a little screenplay I have written. I always wondered what Hammer's proposed remake of KING KONG would've been like and so I took it upon myself to write a screenplay to try and give some impression of what Hammer would've done with the material. The screenplay can be read here: HAMMER'S KING KONG and any and all feedback, questions, cheers or jeers will be gratefully accepted and responded to. On a more personal note, I hope everyone's doing well and that the old place is still going as strong as it ever was. Hope you enjoy my little bit of fan-speculation on what a full blown Hammerisation on the classic KING KONG might've been like. - Callum The Reel Deal: bad movies and the geeks who love them. http://movie-reel-deal.co.uk/
MovieMatt		#1	[-]
Dec 10 11 9:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It is pretty good. There is Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and two Pterodactyls. A Plesiosaur to replace the brontosaurus (makes sense) A snake to replace the Elasmosaurus (makes sense because Elasmosaurs don't have snake-like bodies). A Carnotaurus to replace the T-Rex and a raptor? Sorry, Carnotaurus was discovered in 1985 and the Velociraptor was discovered in 1924. Now an Acrocanthosaurus (which was discovered in 1950) would work. The Anna loves Kong thing sounds like the 1976 remake. I love the pilots named Cooper and Schoedsack. I can imagine Arthur Hayward sculpting the models and Ray Harryhausen and Les Bowie doing the SPFX. Good work! I am impressed! Allow me to handsomely reward you with these two images for your possible 1968 remake. A fake poster. A model by Ray Harryhausen.
IzzyVanHalen		#2	[-]
Dec 11 11 7:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks for reading, Matt - glad you enjoyed it! I had no idea Carnotaurus was only discovered in 1985 - I probably should've done some more research into the dinosaurs I chose! The Reel Deal: bad movies and the geeks who love them. http://movie-reel-deal.co.uk/
Corloff		#3	[-]
Dec 11 11 11:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Nice work, sir! I appreciate how faithful your version is to the original, although I wonder if an actual Hammer remake would follow the template that closely. My guess is that a primative, buxom island girl would become a major part of the action. Mr. Cushing would play Sir Denholm, of course. Is the nefarious Wilson to be played by Mr. Lee? One suggestion: Any way you could work in, oh, I don't know, a pteradactyl attack on a zeppelin? "And the six who lived?" "Dead."
Ted Newsom		#4	[-]
Dec 11 11 12:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Callum-- There are a couple of typos, and one really swell mistake: on page 92 you have Kong saying "Get him on his feet, damn you!" which would certainly be a first in King Kong movies.
IzzyVanHalen		#5	[-]
Dec 11 11 12:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks Corloff! Wilson is indeed supposed to be Sir Chris, with John Richardson as Driscoll, Edina Ronay as Anna and good old Michael Ripper as Englehorn. I'm saving the zeppelins and pterodactyls scene for the sequel, KONG VS ZEPPELINS VS PTERODACTYLS VS DRACULA AD 1972 (now with 100% more buxom cave wenches!) Ted, I'm deeply embarrassed that I never noticed that. The Reel Deal: bad movies and the geeks who love them. http://movie-reel-deal.co.uk/ Last Edited By: IzzyVanHalen Dec 11 11 12:27 PM. Edited 1 times.
Ted Newsom		#6	[-]
Dec 11 11 1:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	also: p5 "My dear you man ..." and on p6. "... this island is off the western coat of Sumatra." That said, three typos in more than 100 pages ain't bad. I don't think it would be indicated to capitalize character names all the way through the script, just the first time they are introduced. That's a minor point. I don't understand the attraction to Edina Ronay... just 'way too Twiggy-60s for my taste. I'm still holding out for Raquel Welch. (Odd little titbit of information: Edina Ronay had a fashion shop three blocks from Jimmy Bernard's flat in Chelsea... which, btw, was about 4 blocks from Bram Stoker's home.) You've hewn very closely to the original script, and the variations are all quite in character. Good job.
cosmicjim		#7	[-]
Dec 14 11 7:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If it's Hammer, I'd imagine a generous sampling of cleavage might ensue.
BijouBob8mm		#8	[-]
Dec 15 11 1:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No, I'm not dead. Izzy has risen from the grave! Glad to see you back in action and still pounding away at the keyboard, Callum! I think this is your most ambitious project yet. And perfect time of the year, since both Dino D and PJ had their Kongs out over the holidays. (Can I say that in a family forum?) You and I may have discussed this elsewhere, but I've always said Hammer should have taken a crack at remaking THE LOST WORLD. (Christopher Lee as Sir John Roxton, Peter Cushing as Professor Summerlee, Andrew Keir as Professor Challenger, Francis Matthews or Ollie Reed as Malone and, if there's not a girl on the expedition, then certainly an encounter with a feral female or two during the expedition.)
MovieMatt		#9	[-]
Dec 19 11 3:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You and I may have discussed this elsewhere, but I've always said Hammer should have taken a crack at remaking THE LOST WORLD. (Christopher Lee as Sir John Roxton, Peter Cushing as Professor Summerlee, Andrew Keir as Professor Challenger, Francis Matthews or Ollie Reed as Malone and, if there's not a girl on the expedition, then certainly an encounter with a feral female or two during the expedition.) With stop-motion dinosaurs by Jim Danforth and matte paintings by Alfred Whitcock.
IzzyVanHalen		#10	[-]
Dec 20 11 5:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, Bob! Perhaps a Hammer LOST WORLD can be my next project! The Reel Deal: bad movies and the geeks who love them. http://movie-reel-deal.co.uk/
AlexSanchez	hammer king kong	#11	[-]
Jul 19 12 12:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	hello I read about hammer's king kong it was cancelled because the copyright and dino de laurentiis I think, and because the toho's king kong vs. godzilla and king kong scapes but hammer did 1 millonc b.c. with rachel wells there were stars involved in hammer's king kong: peter falk (colombo) was denham and susan blakely (the towering inferno, airport'79) was ann darrow special effects were did by harrihausen and ths story was in 1933 I think I don't know more
MovieMatt		#12	[-]
Jul 19 12 12:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't think there were any stars in Hammer's KING KONG. You probably got it mixed up with Universal's version.
AlexSanchez		#13	[-]
Jul 19 12 11:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	was the same project, first with hammer and later universal, always with harryhausen
Ted Newsom		#14	[-]
Jul 20 12 2:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No, it wasn't the same, and Harryhausen was never part of the Universal project. Michael Carreras had the idea back in the mid-1960s, and they could not get the rights then. The guy who'd bought rights from RKO (John Beck, I think it was) would not license anything but sequel rights, thus movies like KK VS GODZILLA and KING KONG ESCAPES, and thr TV cartoon. I don't think he (or RKO) ever actually had the remake rights, which may've been the property of Merian Cooper. They looked around for something on a similar scale and chose ONE MILLION BC. Afterward, Michael looked again into KING KONG, but the rights question was still tangled, so that was the end of Hammer's involvment. The Universal idea was entirely separate, Alex.
MonsterGuy95		#15	[-]
Jul 20 12 5:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Great script!
The Giant Pacific Octopus		#16	[-]
Jul 20 12 10:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ted Newsom wrote: (John Beck, I think it was) It was Daniel O'Shea (RKO's lawyer). The Catch of the Day!
Ted Newsom		#17	[-]
Jul 20 12 6:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Where the devil am I getting John Beck? Who is he? Yeah, I think O'Shea was General Tire & Rubber's attorney when they bought RKO, yes?
The Giant Pacific Octopus		#18	[-]
Jul 20 12 8:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	^ John Beck got the rights from O'Shea to do King Kong vs Godzilla with Toho. A few years later Arthur Rankin got the rights from O'Shea to do The King Kong Show and then the film King Kong Escapes with Toho. As for Cooper he only owned the rights to the noveliztion. The Catch of the Day!
BijouBob8mm		#19	[-]
Jul 26 12 9:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Anyone for casting Veronica Carlson...? Last Edited By: BijouBob8mm Aug 2 12 9:45 AM. Edited 1 times.

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Hammer's KING KONG. A new screenplay by CHFB member IzzyVanHalen.

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