{"id":211060,"date":"2021-03-26T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/adam-wingard-was-hand-picked-to-direct-2005-king-kong-sequel-film\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T00:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:30:44","slug":"adam-wingard-was-hand-picked-to-direct-2005-king-kong-sequel-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/adam-wingard-was-hand-picked-to-direct-2005-king-kong-sequel-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Adam Wingard Was Hand-Picked to Direct 2005 King Kong Sequel \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Adam Wingard Was Hand-Picked to Direct 2005 King Kong Sequel \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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After his Oscar-winning success with the Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy, director Peter Jackson<\/strong> rolled right into one of his long-time passion projects: directing a remake of King Kong<\/em>. That 2005 film made more than $562 million worldwide, which ultimately wasn\u2019t quite<\/em> enough to justify a sequel. But before the notion of a sequel was scrapp<\/a>ed, one was actually in development, and Jackson had his eye on a director for the project: Adam Wingard<\/strong>, who eventually went on to direct the Eighth Wonder of the World in this month\u2019s Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\/Film spoke with Wingard this week in advance of the release of the new movie, and while our full interview will be published soon, we wanted to highlight a piece of MonsterVerse history we\u2019d never heard before. When we asked Wingard about his pitch to secure the job directing\u00a0Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>, he surprised us by saying he never actually had to do a formal pitch because he had a preexisting relationship with producer\u00a0Mary Parent<\/strong>, who runs Legendary. And it turns out, that relationship began thanks to Peter Jackson and a project that didn\u2019t quite work out as it was initially intended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in a lot of ways, the reason for [me not having to do a pitch for Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>], we have to travel<\/a> back in time to 2013 or so when You\u2019re Next<\/i> was about to come out in theaters,\u201d Wingard explained, referencing his excellent slasher film. \u201cSomehow, Peter Jackson had seen an early version of You\u2019re Next<\/i>, and he was interested in me directing a sequel to his King Kong<\/i> film. It was just going to be called Skull Island<\/em>. Simon Barrett<\/b> was going to write it. Mary Parent, who runs Legendary now and produced this movie, was on board with that. But this movie was set up at Universal, and the King Kong rights somehow ended up at Warner Bros. That movie went to the wayside, and so did I. In a long roundabout way, I think getting that vote of confidence from Peter Jackson stuck in Mary Parent\u2019s mind.\u00a0\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Previously, we knew that the studio wanted Joe Cornish as a potential director for Skull Island<\/em>, and Jackson was at least open to the idea of Guillermo del Toro tackling it, too. But Wingard\u2019s name never came up back then, and it\u2019s a fascinating what-if scenario to imagine how things might have played out had he been given the keys to Kong at that point. Jordan Vogt-Roberts ended up directing 2017\u2019s Kong: Skull Island<\/em>, which sounds like it could have evolved from Jackson\u2019s original sequel idea into what it eventually became. and years later, Wingard finally got the chance to tell a story in that arena as well.
\nGodzilla vs. Kong<\/em> hits HBO Max and theaters in the United States on March 31<\/strong>, 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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