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| April 14, 2003 | Smith, Sean; Smalley, Suzanne | COPYRIGHT 2009 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Sean Smith, Suzanne Smalley

Monkey Business

We thought he'd never ape anyone else's success. But with the last "Lord of the Rings" installment coming out this winter, director Peter Jackson plans to start shooting a remake of "King Kong" in June 2004. Six years ago Jackson and his wife, Frances Walsh, wrote an update, reinventing the Fay Wray character as a Lara Croftian explorer and amping up the fear factor with giant spiders. But with remakes of "Godzilla" and "Mighty Joe Young" already in progress, Kong had to go back in his cage. "Peter and Fran were crushed," says Ken Kamins, Jackson's longtime agent.

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