Serkis Take Kong Role
Serkis Apes King Kong
As expected, King Kong director Peter Jackson has cast Lord of the Rings actor Andy Serkis as the title computer-generated ape, Variety reported. Serkis will also play a live-action character named Lumpy, the cook on tramp steamer The Venture, which sails to Skull Island and captures the ape, the trade paper reported.
That’s a lot more live-action screen time than Serkis got in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, where he provided the voice and movements for the computer-animated Gollum and was seen only briefly in the finale as Smeagol. Serkis will return to New Zealand, where Jackson will shoot the film for Universal Pictures, the trade paper reported.
King Kong also stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. Jackson wrote the script with his Rings co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, the trade paper reported.
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