Strickland’s Kong heads to big screen
Spirit Pictures has picked up the rights to the book Kong: King of Skull Island, a prequel to the well-known tale of the big ape. Penned by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland, the story takes place twenty-five years after the monster’s iconic fall off the Empire State Building, but ultimately tells the story of Kong's origins. It introduces other giant gorillas and dinosaurs only hinted at in the previous films. The book was published at the same time Peter Jackson was producing his remake of King Kong. Rights to make the movie were brokered with the Merian C. Cooper family, who own the Kong property. Cooper co-directed the original Kong in 1933.
Variety reports (wow, we've never said that before on Bellairsia...) the plan is to produce the film using motion-capture technology such as Robert Zemeckis used to make The Polar Express, Beowulf, and the upcoming A Christmas Carol.
Speaking of Films...
The Between Failures blog has heard rumors of an upcoming movie adaptation of The House with a Clock in its Walls. We haven’t heard any rumors ourselves, that is new rumors, but the writer does share some concerns about converting Bellairs’ prose into a feature film:
That book was written at a time when children were allowed to experience fear. What would a modern film company do to such a book? More horrifying things than anything the writer conjured up I’m sure.
But then the Media Macaroni blog would like to see House as done by the Coen Brothers. You know - for kids.
Gashlycrumb Goes 3D
A sort-of animated, three-dimensional version of the Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies – although we just tend to hover around Fanny and the leeches.
Photographic Memories: Marshall
We never turn down the chance to showcase some photographs of John’s hometown, Marshall, Michigan.
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