4 Keeping Original Time and Setting	KING KONG PRODUCTION NOTES Introduction Movie Profile Synopsis A Filmmaker's Dream The Story of King Kong A Young Dreamer Meets a Classic Story 4Casting Kong: Keeping Original Time Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow Jack Black as Carl Denham Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll Captain, Assistant, Orphan Building a Shrewder Ape Andy Serkis as Kong 4Filming Kong: An Island Off the Charts Cool-Looking Dinosaurs Primitive Islanders A Fully Digitalized Kong A City That No Longer Exists Shooting in Non-Digital World 35-Year Journey Neared End 3Website Home
	Jackson's decision to keep the tale in its original time and setting-the Depression Era of 1933-was a simple one, based on two deciding factors: “I just wanted to be able to have the climax of the film-which is obviously the iconic sequence of the biplanes attacking Kong on the top of the Empire State Building-and I couldn't figure out a way that you could ever justify having biplanes attacking him if it was set in the modern day. Also, I think it gives the film a little kick sideways into a slightly fantastical realm as well. I think that there's no real sense of mystery or discovery in the world anymore today. Yet in the 1930s, you could believe that there was one tiny, uncharted corner that hadn't been discovered by man yet…this one tiny, little speck of an island on the ocean that could have slipped through the net.” Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow Jack Black as Carl Denham Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll Andy Serkis is Kong Captain, Assistant, Orphan Boy, and Others...