Post by account_disabled on Dec 25, 2023 9:56:29 GMT 5.5
Who wrote the novel King King Kong is a film that you all know, released on March 2, 1933 in New York, therefore exactly 78 years ago, with actors Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot. But in this article I will not talk about the film, except to write about the novel based on the film. In December 1932, a fictionalized version of the film was released as a pure marketing move . The book bore the signatures of Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper. Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a thriller writer who had arrived in Hollywood the year before, on December 5th. He signed a contract with RKO Pictures (Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures), who gave him as his first project The Beast , the previous title of King Kong .
Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973) was a military pilot, film screenwriter, and director and producer. He was the basic idea for the creation of King Kong . It seems that he had dreamed of a giant gorilla terrorizing New York. Co-producer of the film was Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893-1979), a cameraman, director and film producer who met Cooper in Vienna in 1919 and shot four films with him between 1925 and 1931, traveling Special Data around the world and filming the best places where wild beasts and indigenous people lived. In reality Edgar Wallace, who died before the publication of the book, on February 10, 1932, from pneumonia complicated by diabetes, wrote nothing about King Kong , as reported in the book The Making of King Kong by Orville Goldner and George E. Turner published in 1975. Cooper promised Wallace to keep his signature and did so.
The film was written: screenplay by James A. Creelman and Ruth Rose, idea conceived by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. Wallace wrote in his diary: Actually, the story is much more Cooper's than mine. I'll take a lot more credit than I deserve from the film if it's a success, just as I'll be blamed by the audience if it's a failure, which seems fair. Wallace even postponed work on the King Kong screenplay to finish his story Death Watch . On October 20, 1933, during Film Week, the story King Kong was published by Edgar Wallace and Draycott Montagu Dell (1888–1940), a journalist and collaborator of Wallace, who also wrote children's books. The story also appeared in the collection Movie Monsters edited by Peter Haining and published by Severn House in 1988.Kong?
Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973) was a military pilot, film screenwriter, and director and producer. He was the basic idea for the creation of King Kong . It seems that he had dreamed of a giant gorilla terrorizing New York. Co-producer of the film was Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893-1979), a cameraman, director and film producer who met Cooper in Vienna in 1919 and shot four films with him between 1925 and 1931, traveling Special Data around the world and filming the best places where wild beasts and indigenous people lived. In reality Edgar Wallace, who died before the publication of the book, on February 10, 1932, from pneumonia complicated by diabetes, wrote nothing about King Kong , as reported in the book The Making of King Kong by Orville Goldner and George E. Turner published in 1975. Cooper promised Wallace to keep his signature and did so.
The film was written: screenplay by James A. Creelman and Ruth Rose, idea conceived by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. Wallace wrote in his diary: Actually, the story is much more Cooper's than mine. I'll take a lot more credit than I deserve from the film if it's a success, just as I'll be blamed by the audience if it's a failure, which seems fair. Wallace even postponed work on the King Kong screenplay to finish his story Death Watch . On October 20, 1933, during Film Week, the story King Kong was published by Edgar Wallace and Draycott Montagu Dell (1888–1940), a journalist and collaborator of Wallace, who also wrote children's books. The story also appeared in the collection Movie Monsters edited by Peter Haining and published by Severn House in 1988.Kong?
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