4 35-Year Journey Neared Its End	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
	Peter Jackson's 35-year journey to remake King Kong has neared its end. The boy who dreamed of a fantasy world with glamorous actresses, giant apes and faraway adventure has become the director who created such a reality. Yet after all of his efforts-and the innumerable time and contributions of his filmmakers, cast and crew-his goal is a simple one: “I hope that audiences take away a sense of having had an entertaining and emotionally engaging experience seeing our film.  I think that movies have to be more than just entertainment. I do believe that entertainment is the foremost responsibility of filmmakers, but I think if you can move an audience emotionally and make them think and feel while they're watching a film-that's a great thing. I hope that with our movie that you will engage with the characters and engage with Kong himself-even though we've tried to keep him as this very noble, brutish, frightening gorilla. But I hope that we have presented him in such a way that you can engage emotionally with him and feel the tragedy of his story…because that is what's at the heart of the film.”