King Kong

Triple Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson (the Lord of the Rings trilogy) brings his sweeping cinematic vision to the film and assumes directing, producing and co-screenwriting duties.  Starring in the Universal Pictures release is a roster Hollywood actors including Academy Award® nominee Naomi Watts (21 Grams), Jack Black (School of Rock) and Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist).

Naomi Watts portrays Ann Darrow, a vaudeville New York actress who looses her job during the Depression.  She believes her luck is changing when she meets Carl Denham, played by Jack Black.  Denham is an entrepreneur, raconteur, adventurer and filmmaker who is struggling to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry.  Bold, ebullient and charismatic, Denham has a natural sense of showmanship and an appetite for greatness, which ultimately leads to catastrophe.  Adrien Brody portrays Jack Driscoll, a New York playwright, who becomes an unlikely hero in a romantic adventure story, which will test his physical courage and his heart. 

Andy Serkis (who performed the role of the CGI character Gollum in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy) provided both on-set performance reference and motion capture performance for the title character of King Kong, among other characters.

Jackson's creative team on King Kong includes director of photography Andrew Lesnie (cinematographer for the Rings trilogy and Oscar® winner for The Fellowship of the Ring); editor Jamie Selkirk (Oscar® winner, The Return of the King); production designer Grant Major (Oscar® nominee for all three Rings and winner for The Return of the King); costumer Terry Ryan (The Hard Word, Paradise Road); and unit production manager Anne Bruning, who last worked in New Zealand on The Last Samurai.