King Kong Getting Disney Plus Series From James Wan And Paper Girls Creator
Something big is rustling in the trees over at Disney Plus. A new live-action streaming series about King Kong is in development by Disney Branded Television, with James Wan and Paper Girls creator Stephany Folsom involved.
With the working title King Kong, the upcoming Disney Plus series will be an action-adventure drama that explores the origin of a new giant ape and will take place on the Skull Island of the present day, as reported by Deadline. Writing the script for the show is Folsom, best known for her work at Amazon Prime Video on the critically acclaimed science fiction series Paper Girls and on the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Folsom is executive producing the series alongside horror powerhouse Wan (Saw,The Conjuring, Insidious, Furious 7).
King Kong: Ranking The Terrible To The Epic
The big ape's new series is still in the very early stages of pre-production, but we do know that it is based on the novelization by Joe DeVito. These novels, commissioned by the estate of the original 1933 King Kongdirector Merian C. Cooper, depict the origin story of King Kong and the history of Skull Island. They provide a wealth of material that the new series could cover, including the original story that has been told so many times, as well as the possibility of both prequels and sequels.
The rights to theKing Kong property are a tangled mess as horrifying as the deepest jungles of Skull Island. The original character was created by Merian C. Cooper, who co-directed the classic 1933 film with Ernest B. Schoedsack at RKO Radio Pictures, a prominent film studio at the time. In the nearly 100 years since Cooper designed the Kong character, there have been numerous lawsuits over who owned the rights. Cooper
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