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  • Chicken Little

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


EXCLUSIVE: 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.

The Merian C. Cooper Estate had teamed with DeVito to produce new novelizations that are being used as source material for the series, along with the original book IP.

A live-action series, King Kong Skull Island, was in development at MarVista Entertainment and IM Global Television five years ago with a different creative team, also based on Cooper’s King Kong and DeVito ArtWorks’ Skull Island, with Festa executive producing. It did not come to fruition.

King Kong, a 90-year-old character with an entangled web of rights, has been the subject of a slew of movies, most recently featured in Legendary/Warner Bros’ Monsterverse, which only uses the Kong part of the gorilla monster’s moniker for its titles: 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, followed by a Netflix anime series, Skull Island.

Filmmaker Wan, whose TV producing credits include MacGyver and Swamp Thing, is repped by CAA, Stacey Testro International and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light.

Folsom, who created and executive produces Amazon’s sci-fi series Paper Girls and also worked on the streamer’s upcoming fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, is repped by Verve, Kaplan/Perrone and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Property rights holder DeVito ArtWorks is repped by Festa of World Builder Entertainment and the legal team of Darren Trattner of Jackoway Tyerman and Robert Siegel.

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

EXCLUSIVE: 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 famou…
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Sinner's Sandwich said:
Yeah like children have known that violent deaths exist since humanity existed. It's also a normal part of fairy tales. The evil gets punished with death.

The witch from Hansel & Gretel gets burned alive in her oven.
In Snow White the evil Queen has to dance in hot shoes made of iron until she dies. Rumpelstilzkin gets so angry, he tears his own body apart. Bluebeard gets stabbed to death by two swords. The ogre from Puss in boots turns himself into a mouse & gets eaten alive...and so on.

Children know how these stories end and yet they want to listen to them over and over. Something Disney once knew but now decide to ignore.
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It's not about the children, not about artistic integrity anymore. Those type of modern saccharine Disneyfied movies are basically two hour commercials disguised as fairy tales, made to sell Barbies, soundtracks, and gummi candy. Sad but true. But somehow, Disneybots seem to deny that.

Good lord, why are so many adult baby Disneybots such blithering idiots?
 
The live action movie with Pinnochio is only making more children watch the original animated movie. I still have no clue why they’re making this one as the real thing. It’s no more different than the live action Dumbo movie.
 
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‘King Kong’ Live-Action Series In Works At Disney+ From Stephany Folsom, James Wan’s Atomic Monster & Disney Branded TV​


EXCLUSIVE: 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.

The Merian C. Cooper Estate had teamed with DeVito to produce new novelizations that are being used as source material for the series, along with the original book IP.

A live-action series, King Kong Skull Island, was in development at MarVista Entertainment and IM Global Television five years ago with a different creative team, also based on Cooper’s King Kong and DeVito ArtWorks’ Skull Island, with Festa executive producing. It did not come to fruition.

King Kong, a 90-year-old character with an entangled web of rights, has been the subject of a slew of movies, most recently featured in Legendary/Warner Bros’ Monsterverse, which only uses the Kong part of the gorilla monster’s moniker for its titles: 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, followed by a Netflix anime series, Skull Island.

Filmmaker Wan, whose TV producing credits include MacGyver and Swamp Thing, is repped by CAA, Stacey Testro International and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light.

Folsom, who created and executive produces Amazon’s sci-fi series Paper Girls and also worked on the streamer’s upcoming fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, is repped by Verve, Kaplan/Perrone and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Property rights holder DeVito ArtWorks is repped by Festa of World Builder Entertainment and the legal team of Darren Trattner of Jackoway Tyerman and Robert Siegel.

deadline.com

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

EXCLUSIVE: 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 famou…
deadline.com deadline.com
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So is the King Kong IP public domain hence why Disney is developing a series and Warner Bros. is currently in production of another MonsterVerse installment?
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
Why go to the effort to remake the film if you're going to do what they did all over again?
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The Lion King remake premiered in Hollywood on July 9, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 19, 2019, in the Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D and IMAX formats. It has grossed over $1.6 billion worldwide during its theatrical run, overtaking Frozen to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time. It also became the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time and the second-highest-grossing film of 2019.
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Aladdin was theatrically released in the United States on May 24, 2019. It grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 2019.
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The Beauty and the Beast remake grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing live-action musical film, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2017 (after Star Wars: The Last Jedi), and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time.
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When all you have to do to print payola is to take one of your animated classics (or not-so-classics), spray some ugly live action CGI paint over it, and throw in a few woke good boy points for good measure, guess what TF they're gonna make for-fucking-ever?
Oats12345 said:
Way the fuck is Luke Evans playing the chochman?
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So, gay people are secretly evil after all? OMG, Disney, based?!
Naw. He'll probably get some shitty redemption arc, because gay people can never do wrong!
The Nothingness said:
So is the King Kong IP public domain hence why Disney is developing a series and Warner Bros. is currently in production of another MonsterVerse installment?
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The answer seems to be....kinda-sorta.
The rights to the character have always been split up with no single exclusive rights holder. Different parties have also contested that various aspects are public domain material and therefore ineligible for copyright status.
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The Nothingness said:
So is the King Kong IP public domain hence why Disney is developing a series and Warner Bros. is currently in production of another MonsterVerse installment?
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Not for a few more years, seems rights are split three ways with universal, wb and the Merian C. Cooper Estate.
People forget but WB own the original King Kong movie rights, as they own most of the RKO movies.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
When all you have to do to print payola is to take one of your animated classics (or not-so-classics), spray some ugly live action CGI paint over it, and throw in a few woke good boy points for good measure, guess what TF they're gonna make for-fucking-ever?

So, gay people are secretly evil after all? OMG, Disney, based?!
Naw. He'll probably get some shitty redemption arc, because gay people can never do wrong!

The answer seems to be....kinda-sorta.
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My issue is the chochman is mentbto be this old guy who seems nice but is actually a evil monster.
 
One of my issues with this live action Pinocchio is the lack of continuation in the CG style that's used. Pinocchio himself looks cartoony (almost uncanny valley levels with the painted eyes), the fish and the cat also look more stylized rather than realistic, but then they have the fox and cat guys looking super realistic. Then the cricket looks cartoon too. They don't blend well together when the styles are so varied.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Since I read Wild Minds, I'm going to watch Snow White, the first feature-length cartoon. Will it turn me gay/into a little girl?
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I just rewatched this recently, and it’s very, very 20’s. The animation is smooth, and I can see why it would wow audiences back then, but it’s also very meandering and parts really drag on, just to show off the animation it feels like.
 
Mao Hao Hao said:
One of my issues with this live action Pinocchio is the lack of continuation in the CG style that's used. Pinocchio himself looks cartoony (almost uncanny valley levels with the painted eyes), the fish and the cat also look more stylized rather than realistic, but then they have the fox and cat guys looking super realistic. Then the cricket looks cartoon too. They don't blend well together when they styles are so varied.
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Looks like they took the criticisms of the 2019 Lion King remake (the animals are too realistic and therefore, can't emote at all) to heart....but like everything they do these days, they did it half-assedly.
 
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