King Kong

This book is a true masterpiece of modern film novels. It immediately captures the heart and mind of the reader with the characters exploits on the 1st page. Based on the 2005 film KING KONG this novelization tells of how a struggling vaudeville actress Ann Darrow journeys across the sea to the mysterious Skull Island to film a motion picture. On the way she will fall in love, face many dangers and meet Kong, a massive prehistoric gorilla with whom she forms an uncanny connection. Christopher Golden masterfully tells us the story of the movie. The movie's screen play is captivatingly designed from the 1930s edition by Peter Jackson, Accademy Award-Winning Director of THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY. Filled with many great characters including Carl Denham an obssesive movie director to Ben Hayes, the first mate of the ship VENTURE, this is a book to be treasured for ages. KONG IS KING!

A great book of a great movie about a great story. From the mid 1930's to the early 2000's a story that will live on forever.

King Kong is one of those age old classics, one that haunts your imagination long after you watch it. Why else, do you think, that Peter Jackson became a film maker? Now, with his spectacular remake, it's age old wonder and majestique can now entertain a whole new generation of people who would have never bothered to watch such an out dated black and white film. As his film has come out, all sorts of movie memerobillia have come out to commemorate it's arrival. And for me, the most entertaining and true to the movie novel is this one. Sticking almost word for word with the script, King Kong captures the true essence of the film, while taking a few artistic liberties to add more meaning and action to it. For instance, the swamp scene was added into the novel, creating more peril for our rescue party. Also, more point of views from the army were added back in New York. These did not detract, but added to the book's flavor. I most admire how it stuck to the basic plotline of the movie and almost word for wrod with the dialogue, while offering insight into the character's minds. It is a beautiful novelization, and I recommend it to any King Kong, cinematic, or Peter Jackson fan. P.S.I'd especially recommend this paired with Island of the Skull, if you're wondering how this all started.

I'm not sure what John Q Public's problems are, but he's taken a few too many cheap shots at what I think is a fine writer and a terrific novelization of the KING KONG movie. Sure, there are two key scenes missing from the novel, but they obviously were added to the film after Mr. Golden read the script and did his job. And what a job he did! He caputers the fun and adventure of the film and (like the film) never lets the energy flag. Great fun!

The reason I'm giving this such a high rating is because it follows the movie very closley. It has SO MANY QUOTES FROM THE MOVIE. Like when King Kong dies Carl says "It was beauty killed the beast." Those are the last lines in the book and in the movie.