Today was a boring, slow, lazy day. It was raining, and I had nothing to do. So I decided to watch every episode of the King Kong Production Video Diaries. It was about 2 and a half hours worth, but it was well worth it. King Kong is going the be a BEAST of a movie. This one is set in 1933 right in the middle of the great depression. Jack Black is a filmmaker that goes to the far off Skull Island, to make his new great movie. Oh course on the island they discover dinosaurs, and a giant gorilla... Some how(I'm not sure I have never seen any other version of KK) he gets over to New York and he rains havoc on the city. Peter Jackson is going all the way with it just like LOTR. The movie is very well produced and it turns out there is soo much involved for every scene.

The film has taken about a year to complete. Starting with pre production, shooting, post production, pickups/reshoots, editing, CG integration, and just processing the shots. They have hundreds of people in the crew, and they have been spending soo much money. The film process goes like this: camera films the actors - film turned into digital video - sits there to be edited - gets edited -pickups are added - sound effects are added - actor dialogue is added - CGI is added(including digital doubles, Kong, dinosaurs, ect) - film is recolored - digital is converted back into reels - and then its processed for viewing in theaters. Its all just very crazy. At one point PJ gets so tired that he invites Bryan Singer (currently directing Superman) to come in and direct the movie for one day while he sleeps. So watch all those they are very interesting, especially the finite details that they pay attention to.
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