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As if writing two film scripts for The Hobbit with Guillermo del Toro, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and collaborating with Steven Spielberg on the 3D Tin Tin films weren’t enough to keep Peter Jackson busy, he’s unveiled his plan for King Kong 360 3D. It will relaunch this summer as a signature attraction on the Universal Studios Hollywood studio tour.
On The Hobbit front, I’m told that both scripts are in, that discussions are underway right now to determine if they’ll shoot in 3D. (I think it’s inevitable). They will set everything in place in a New Zealand powwow next month, and then casting will begin for a November start. As for the King Kong attraction that’s based on Jackson’s 2005 film, he’ll tell you himself.
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Well, if you’re there, and you’re immersed in the ride/soundstage, wouldn’t that already be 3-D? “King Kong 360/3-D” is as ridiculous as saying “King Kong movie – with a large gorilla!”
“Oooooh, the tram’s gonna shake?!!” Rides at the studios have been doing all of this for decades. Yes, in three dimensions.
The studios are gonna hammer this “3-D” thing to death, until it doesn’t even mean 3-D anymore. (Kinda like what they did to “reality shows”.) All they know/care about is that they can charge more money if “3D” is in the title.
“if you’re there, and you’re immersed in the ride/soundstage, wouldn’t that already be 3-D?”
No.
3D, by definition, has to have DEPTH as well as HEIGHT and WIDTH.
360 degrees, on the other hand, is a fucking circle.
A circle (in case you’re still confused) is a simple shape consisting of points on a plane.
Therefore 360 degrees does not equal a circle. It doesn’t matter if you’re standing up and making the circle by holding out your arm as you rotate. That, as I’m hoping you can grasp by now, still won’t give you form in all three dimensions.
So saying “King Kong 360/3-D” is “ridiculous,” in fact makes YOU look ridiculous.
If you don’t know something, pose an actual question, not a snarky remark. And don’t try and be smarter than you are, it never ends well.
Hobbit should be fun, I’m sure that’s going to be a smashing success! Was quite disappointed in King Kong in the theater, nice to see Universal finally adding a new attraction to the tour…Jaws is pretty old and tired at this point.
I hope the ride is better than the movie was. Jackson’s King Kong was the biggest piece of shit!!!!!
You’ve obviously never endured sitting through anything from McG or Michael Bay.
you obviously do not know the word: FUN
Seems like a huge step backwards to me. Whereas before, you faced off against the largest animatronic ever made, this time you get to see – yawn – CGI monsters on cinema screens. Great.
I have to agree… a giant robot really is something you’d make a journey to see. But they’ve replaced the lost atraction with a mere movie that, according to the LA Times, cost far more to make than a replacement animatronic.
Is this replacing Earthquake? They should just turn the tram ride into a full-on rollercoaster. I can’t wait for PJ’s Meet the Feebles Log Splash and the Dead Alive Cannibal Mom Mirror Maze Chase.
Dear God, please don’t let them mangle the hobbit with 3-D garbage. I’m so sick of 3-D. Unfortunately my friends eat that crap up and drag me to movies where I have to pay more to peer through stupid plastic glasses. Enough is enough.
This reeks of him honoring the fine print of his King Kong contract from back in ’05.
Fulfilling a contractual obligation me thinks.
In the very first screenings of the original King Kong from the 1930′s, there are two scenes of King Kong playing with Fay Wray’s breasts as he holds her in his hand — during the iconic Empire State Bldg. scenes — edited out soon after.
That version wasn’t 3-D…I’d say it was more like 34B.
Pfft. November now? Assuming MGM doesn’t get another three extensions and make absolutely no progress in resurrecting a studio that’s been dead for ages now. Sell the individual rights for Hobbit and Bond to someone will turn them into cash cows instead of sitting there with their thumbs up their butts pining about all their imaginary comeback plans. Good riddance.
He didn’t say whether he was going to add a decorative plastic deer.
He certainly didn’t seem excited promoting his King Kong 3D…
I liked PJ’s King Kong, up until the 3rd act. The Skull Island act was akin to Jurassic Park on steroids. Overall, since the original King Kong is Peter Jackson’s favorite movie, I think his version is like a love letter to an ugly girl, a girl only he thinks is beautiful… call me crazy…
Awe, you are crazy…
Crazy like a fox
we can call it 3d for money