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Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

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A 2005 video game adaptation of Peter Jackson's King Kong.

12 Interesting Facts About Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

Interesting Facts (9)

  1. #001

    Cooper initially intended a real gorilla to fight komodo dragons on a miniature set and even picked out two komodo dragons, but the plan gave way to stop motion, largely out of concern for the live animals' safety.

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  2. #002

    The game has no health pick-ups. Instead, health regenerates if the player avoids combat after being injured. That is commonplace in action games now, but was fairly unusual in 2005.

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  3. #003

    In the film, the Venture crew uses chloroform to knock out Kong. The game uses gas bombs instead (as mentioned in dialogue), much like the classic 1933 film.

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  4. #004

    Merian C. Cooper removed the "Spider Pit Sequence" from the 1933 film after test audiences screamed and ran from the theater; the scene is said to have been cut because it stalled the story rather than because of the reaction.

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  5. #005

    Peter Jackson recreated the lost spider-pit sequence using traditional stop-motion effects, and it was included on the 2005 DVD release.

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  6. #006

    A planned third Toho Kong film, Operation Robinson Crusoe: King Kong vs. Ebirah, turned into Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster after licensing problems forced Kong to be replaced by Godzilla at the last minute.

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  7. #007

    Willis O'Brien, the stop-motion animator on the 1933 film, wrote a treatment for King Kong vs. Frankenstein in which Kong battles a giant monster created by Frankenstein's grandson in San Francisco.

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  8. #008
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    Players who complete the game 100% and score enough points in stage replays unlock an alternate ending: after replaying the famous airplane sequence as Kong, Jack and Englehorn use the Venture's seaplane to take out the planes and searchlights so Kong can escape the Empire State Building, and they can bring him back to Skull Island. If the seaplane flies too close, Kong mistakes it for an attacker and brings it down.

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  9. #009
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    In the film, Hayes is killed when King Kong throws him into a deep pit. In the game, a V-Rex steps on him in a cutscene and he later dies of his injury.

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Production Story (2)

  1. #010

    Peter Jackson confirmed that some concepts in the game were ideas cut from the final film. The alternate ending is one of them; it was considered for the movie, but the original sad ending was kept. The game thus became a place to show King Kong fans and gamers the concepts that didn't make the final cut.

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  2. #011

    George Worthing Yagtes developed O'Brien's idea into a screenplay retitled King Kong vs. Prometheus, but no American studio wanted it, so the script went to Toho, which put Godzilla in Kong's place.

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Characters & Cast (1)

  1. #012

    Recording lines for the game with most of the film's cast was expensive. Many of them didn't enjoy it: they were never with other actors (almost always the case in game production) and had to keep recording "optional" lines that depended on what the player would do.

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