Three measure Oscar winner Peter Jackson reteams with his screenwriting partners Phillipa Boyens and Fran Walsh to retell the story of King Kong. The large ape who is captured and brought to civilization to meet its tragic ends. Jackson was always interested in retelling the story of the love story between the large creature and Ann Darrow (played by Naomi Watts).

After his workable success from the Lord of the Ring trilogies, Peter Jackson dove right back into filmmaking with this nice and popular character in the history of cinema. There had been so many films made based on the original that it was difficult to understand where to begin and where to finish and still keep the audience on its toes. After a long casting period, the main players we are chosen and moved to New Zealand to begin production. Adrian Brodey and Jack Black were the first to step on the boat.

Jackson completed principal photography a few months ago in New Zealand he is now working with his team of editors to polish the rough ends. While a trailer was released recently, many many people criticized the fact that King Kong was revealed to the audience as opposed to extending the teaser and suspense period.

Recent poles and statistics have shown that the trailers that give away the least amount of understanding on the film are the one to bring the more people to the theatres. "And its quite understandable. People go to see what has been marinating in their imaginations... With King Kong, the trailer doesnt leave much room for anything else. We understand what he looks like and how he moves. I think that this was a very bad move on part of the selling team," says Brian Copote.

Other films that are said to be released around the identical measure as King Kong are Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com) and Wedding Season with Nicole Kidman. Whether these two smaller films will be completely crushed by the size of Jacksons mega-motion picture is to be seen.

So far, Peter Jackson, has enjoyed a nice amount of following for the Lord of the Rings mainly because there was such a huge fan base of the book and there had never been a movie made from the books. In this case, King Kong was never based on any novels and it has been shown on the silver screen several times. This may or can not be a handicap but one things for sure. It will certainly not equal the $300,000,000 success of the Lord of the Rings.