King Kong ( Disney+ Live-Action Series)

[DCBaker]

"An iconic monster is headed to Disney+. Disney Branded Television is in very early development on King Kong (working title), a series for Disney+ tracking the original story of the famous ape. Deals have just closed for the project, from James Wan’s Atomic Monster, which would mark the first live-action series set in the Kong universe.

Written by Paper Girls creator Stephany Folsom, King Kong is a serialized action/adventure drama that brings the classic monster story into the modern age, with a return to Skull Island and the dawn of a new Kong. The series will explore the mythology of King Kong’s origin story and the supernatural mysteries of his home based on IP from Merian C. Cooper’s original books and the new King Kong novelizations by Joe DeVito.

Folsom executive produces alongside Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster and Dannie Festa and Marc Manus for World Builder Entertainment."

‘King Kong’ Live-Action Series In Works At Disney+ From Stephany Folsom, James Wan’s Atomic Monster & Disney Branded TV

An iconic monster is headed to Disney+.

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[Disney Irish]

Wasn't there suppose to be a Apple+ TV show in production? Is this it and its now moving to D+, or is this different?

 

[DCBaker]

Wasn't there suppose to be a Apple+ TV show in production? Is this it and its now moving to D+, or is this different?

This is different - the Apple TV+ series is Godzilla and the Titans.

 

[Disney Irish]

This is different - the Apple+ series is Godzilla and the Titans.

Well since Kong is part of the Titans, I'd expect him to be part of it.

 

[DCBaker]

Well since Kong is part of the Titans, I'd expect him to be part of it.

Just noting this is a separate series.

 

[Slpy3270]

Apparently the concept of the show is supposed to resemble Cooper's original vision? I know he wanted to actually film in a tropical environment but nobody wanted to fund that.

 

[Disney Irish]

Just noting this is a separate series.

It'll be interesting to see then how the differentiate the two versions of Kong.

 

[Slpy3270]

Perhaps the most interesting part about this is James Wan's involvement. Dude has been a WB guy for a long time.

 

[FigmentJedi]

It'll be interesting to see then how the differentiate the two versions of Kong.

For starters, size. It's not like Disney Kong needs to be beefed up to fight Godzilla after all.

 

[Disney Irish]

For starters, size. It's not like Disney Kong needs to be beefed up to fight Godzilla after all.

It wouldn’t be Kong if he wasn’t huge. So doubt if that is one feature they didn’t keep.

 

[Sharon&Susan]

It wouldn’t be Kong if he wasn’t huge. So doubt if that is one feature they didn’t keep.

Kong can still be big without being the size of Godzilla (300+ feet tall). Most versions of King Kong are well under 100 feet.

 

[Disney Irish]

Kong can still be big without being the size of Godzilla (300+ feet tall). Most versions of King Kong are well under 100 feet.

It was only last years KvG that had him at 335ft, in the first two films he was ~25ft and 104ft respectively.

So again I don't see them doing anything much different here, he'll between the ~25 and 100ft. So the question is still in my mind, what are they going to do to differentiate from the WB/Legendary Monsterverse version?

I mean the character is so iconic and tied to Universal and now WB that its going to be difficult to separate for most people. It would be like if the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey finally goes into the public domain and Paramount started making a new Steamboat Willie show for Paramount+.

Its going to be competing Kong's I guess, lol. Anyways that's my two cents.

 

[FigmentJedi]

It was only last years KvG that had him at 335ft, in the first two films he was ~25ft and 104ft respectively.

So again I don't see them doing anything much different here, he'll between the ~25 and 100ft. So the question is still in my mind, what are they going to do to differentiate from the WB/Legendary Monsterverse version?

I mean the character is so iconic and tied to Universal and now WB that its going to be difficult to separate for most people. It would be like if the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey finally goes into the public domain and Paramount started making a new Steamboat Willie show for Paramount+.

Its going to be competing Kong's I guess, lol. Anyways that's my two cents.

The 104 foot Kong was also an overscaled Toho project.
The most that normal Kong gets is around 50 feet and that's based more on the miniature New York buildings used in 1933's stop motion sets not quite matching the puppet's scale and essentially meaning Kong had to have grown on the boat trip.