Remake back on, and a new name for the dog!! - Stephen fry interview

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Forget about the dog -- why is this being remade at all? There's nothing wrong with the original.

Jackson should stop remaking (and screwing up) classics, like King Kong, and do something new. An overrated talent who'd be nowhere without other people's ideas and CGI.

Incidentally, when the 1955 film was released in America the dog's name was looped over as "Trigger".

If they don't make the film, then there is the Leviathan Trilogy of books by Scott Westerfield? They are set in an alternate world war one, and could conceivably be made using either:
1.) Animated Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) Motion Capture like Beowolf, A Christmas Carol, Happy Feet and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn;
OR
2.) Composite Motion Capture (artificially generated backgrounds, live actors, and computer generated compositing) like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, MirrorMask, Speed Racer, Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Avatar. (Also called Green Screen with a Digital Backlot)...

Seeing what he did with King Kong, and what Weta have done with so many films in the last decade.... The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011), The Devil's Rock (2010), Daybreakers (2010), Avatar (2009), The Lovely Bones (2009), Under The Mountain (2009), District 9 (2009), The WotWots (2009), Born of Hope (2009), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Eel Girl (2008), 30 Days of Night (2007), The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Black Sheep (2007), Jane & the Dragon (2005–2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), King Kong (2005), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), I, Robot (film) (2004), Hellboy (2004), Van Helsing (2004), Peter Pan (2003), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Last Samurai (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) to name a few...

The books are Leviathan, Behemoth and Goliath, and follow the adventures of two teens on the run, how their world's collide, on the dawn of the war, He is the semi-legitimate son of the recently murdered Franz-Ferdinand, and possible heir to the Hapsburg throne, in hiding, She is the commoner girl who is disguised as a boy (midshipman) in the Royal Navy Air Corps, and their weird adventures from there on...

'So is the remake actually back on? There doesn't seem to be any sign of it'

Jackson is trying to figure out how to make it as a three part film and get Andy Serkis to portray the CGI dog now to be known as Gollum!

Its that man again!!