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MUMBAI: HBO's blockbuster of the month airs on Friday 26 January
at 9 pm.The "Eighth Wonder of the World" returns for the
third time in this lavish film directed by Academy Award winner
Peter Jackson. Thanks to unrivalled, state-of-the-art computer effects
wizardry and animatronics, Jackson finally brings justice to the
1933 classic starring Fay Wray.
Scheming and bankrupt filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black, The Holiday,
Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny) embarks on a desperate plan to
get the studio and the creditors off his back. He relies on playwright
Jack Driscoll (Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody, Hollywoodland,
The Jacket) to finish the pages of a half-baked screenplay.
Denham talks starving vaudeville performer Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts,
The Painted Veil, Stay) into joining them on a film shoot to a far-flung
island. The adventure begins when they board a steamer, setting
sail for the South Seas at Denham's behest in their search for the
mythical and eerie Skull Island, where rumors of a gargantuan monster
abound. Denham believes this monster could clinch the blockbuster
he so badly needs.
Upon reaching the island, Ann is abducted by a fierce tribe who
make her their next offering to Kong. Kong takes the terrified Ann,
but Ann's courage and empathy soon let her see through Kong, and
a bond between them begins to grow. From Manhattan to the South
Seas and back, expect loads of drama, fun, and scream-inducing scenes
in what movie critic Roger Ebert calls "magnificent entertainment...one
of [2005's] best films."
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