Los Angeles, Aug 24 : The ‘King Kong franchise is moving forward with live-action television series about the story of the birth of the gigantic.
The plan is in an early stage of stage of development at Disney+, reports ‘Variety’.
The show will be a serialised drama that would focus on Kong’s past and the mystery of the place he calls home, Skull Island.
According to the ‘Variety’ the series will be inspired by the original “King Kong” script written by Merian C.Cooper as well as novelisations written by the artist Joe DeVito produced in conjunction with Cooper’s estate.
“Variety” further declares it is Stephany Folsom, who developed the Amazon series “Paper Girls” for television who will write and direct the King Kong show.
James Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett will also executive produce on behalf of Atomic Monster along with Dannie Festa from World Builder Entertainment.Disney Branded Television will produce the show.
The first “King Kong” movie was premiered in 1933 and was a huge success.The character has appeared in many films to date and the most recent in the Legendary Warner Bros.Monsterverse films.
They include Kong: Skull Island’ and Godzilla Vs.Kong’.Netflix has also got the ‘Skull Island’ animated series in development.
Peter Jackson also remade the original film in 2005 with Adrien Brody, Jack Black, and Naomi Watts.
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