Coens, utterly NP and getting moreso.

[John Bailey]

I'm of the opinion that no further remakes of King Kong should occur as, 
after the excellent original, it's been a steep downhill slope ever since. 
Jackson's script does look very interesting, though. I couldn't find the 
script for Planet of the Apes, though. Any pointers? Can't say I was very 
impressed by Tim Burton's remake, so..in answer to your question, I guess 
LOTR would probably be my pick. Not that I'm that excited about seeing the 
LOTR series, but: a) I'm sure it will be entertaining b) I can't think of 
anyone else who could get away with it c) biiiiiig boost to the NZ economy 
and d) the trailers look pretty good. Personally, the film I AM hanging out 
for is Wong Kar-Wai's probably-never-to-be-completed 2046 (which once was to 
have featured the sublime casting of Bjork as an androgynous android 
bartender...) Speaking of WKW...


>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:43:39 -0800 (PST)
>
>Here's an alternate-historical dilemma.  Given the
>possibility/probability that only one of these might
>have been made, which Peter Jackson film would you opt
>for: King Kong, Planet of the Apes, or The Lord of the
>Rings Trilogy?  Maybe we are living in that
>Leibnizian/Panglossary "best of all worlds," at that,
>but only by a hair's breadth.  But I'm still
>contemplating that David Lynch Return of the Jedi
>(Lucas offered, but he opted for Dune instead) ...
>
>--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>wrote:
> > John Bailey wrote:
> >
> > > throw in New Zealand's Peter Jackson
>
> > Me too.... From "Bad Taste" to "The Lord of the
> > Rings", quite a career I'd say.
>
>But you can at least get hold of PJ's screenplays for
>KK and POTA (surely the great lost double-feature) ...
>
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