King Kong (2005)
Film Statistics
Director: Peter Jackson
Writer: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release Date: December 14, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Distributor: Universal
Status: On DVD
Cast
- Naomi Watts
- Jack Black
- Adrien Brody
- Andy Serkis
- Colin Hanks
- Kyle Chandler
- Thomas Kretschmann
- Jamie Bell
- Evan Parke
- John Sumner
- Richard Kavanagh
- Craig Hall
- Lobo Chan
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Synopsis
It is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow has found herself -- like so many
other New Yorkers during the Great Depression -- without the means to earn a living.
Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque, she
considers her limited options while aimlessly wandering the streets of Manhattan.
When her hunger drives her to unsuccessfully try to steal an apple from a fruit vendor’s
stall, she is rescued -- literally -- by filmmaker and multiple hyphenate Carl Denham.
It seems that the entrepreneur-raconteur-adventurer is no stranger to theft, having that
day lifted the only existing print of his most recent and unfinished film from under his
studio executives’ noses when they threatened to pull his completion funds. Carl has until
the end of the day to get his crew onboard the Singapore-bound tramp steamer, the S.S. Venture,
in hopes of completing his travelogue/action film. With that, the showman is certain he will
finally achieve the personal greatness he knows awaits him around the corner…and although the
crew believe that corner to be Singapore, Denham actually hopes to find and capture on film the
mysterious place of legend: Skull Island.
Unfortunately for Carl, his headlining actress has pulled out of his project, but his search for
a size-four leading lady (the costumes have all been made) has, fatefully, led him to Ann. The
struggling actress is reluctant to sign on with Denham, until she learns that the up-and-coming,
socially relevant playwright Jack Driscoll is penning the screenplay -- the fees his friend Carl
pays for pot boiling adventure are a welcome supplement to Driscoll’s nominal income from his stage
plays.
With his newly discovered star and coerced screenwriter reluctantly onboard, Denham's "moving picture
ship" heads out of New York Harbor...and toward a destiny that none aboard could possibly foresee.
Other Titles
- King Kong (Argentina, Brazil, Canada (French title), Denmark, Greece, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela)
- Kong: The Eighth Wonder of the World International (teaser title) (English title)
- Peter Jackson's King Kong USA (promotional title)
Trivia
- In at least one scene that takes place in a diner, Naomi wears a hat that is Peter Jackson's
tribute to Fay Wray's hat in the original King Kong.
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