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Long live the king: Peter Jackson's retelling of the cinematic legend King Kong pushes Weta Digital to supreme heights ... and depths.(Film)(Cover Story)
People walked out of the world premiere of King Kong in 1933, horrified by a spectacular effects scene: The star, a monstrous gorilla, shook a group of sailors off a log and into a pit, where they were devoured by giant spiders. As a result, director Merian C. Cooper cut the shocking scene. But, director Peter Jackson reprised that sequence for his remake, Universal Pictures' King Kong, and, with the tastes of 21st century audiences in mind, he not only filled the pit with giant CG spiders, he attacked digital sailors with huge grasshopper-like insects and had gigantic slimy slugs swallow them whole. It's one of many sequences during the three-hour epic in which Jackson ...
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