King Kong Lives
America's biggest hero is back... and he is not happy.
Country
Production
Budget
$10 000 000
Box office
$4 711 220
Director
Actors
Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, Peter Elliott, George Antoni, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz, Frank Maraden, Robin Cahall, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Michael Forest
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Martha De Laurentiis, Dino De Laurentiis, Ronald Shusett
Camera operator
Alec Mills
Composer
John Scott
Artist
Peter Murton
Audition
Donna Isaacson, John S. Lyons
Editing
Malcolm Cooke
Whole Team (55)
Whole Team (55)
Short description
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion. When Kong awakens following his heart transplant, he senses the nearby presence of the female ape and the two escape to wreak havoc together.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the filming of this movie, director John Gillerermin was in mourning for his son, Michael, who had died on the set of his previous adventure film, "Sheena – Queen of the Jungle" (1984). It often happened that right in the middle of the workday he would halt filming and go sailing. Once, after another scandal (and he was a notorious troublemaker), he disappeared for several days. The filming was completed for him by documentarian Charles McCrecken, who was only 21 years old at the time.
- The film ranks 15th in attendance among foreign films in Soviet cinema distribution.
- Linda Hamilton agreed to star in the film after seeing how filming in the first film ('King Kong', 1976, John Guillermin) made Jessica Lange a major star. During filming, she had no idea what the final result would be like, and when she saw the film, she was horrified – and rightly so, because both critics and audiences considered it terrible.
- Peter Michael Getz received a check for 3 cents after the film's run. He stapled the check to the film's poster in his house and never cashed it.
- In Japan, the film was shown as "King Kong 2".
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