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* BudgetBustingElement: Nearly $2 million of the film's $24 million budget (ballooned from an initial $16 million) was spent on a full-body, forty-foot tall King Kong animatronic. It was intended to be used for the majority of the movie, but it proved inoperable (even breaking down once during filming) and looked unconvincing, so it only appears for about ten seconds total in the final film, while most of the rest was Creator/RickBaker in an ape suit.
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** Creator/RickBaker didn't get a proper credit for his onscreen performance as Kong for most of the film because the producers were trying to push [[StarringSpecialEffects the high-tech animatronic as the film's "star"]]. He's only mentioned as having made "special contributions" to the work of Carlo Rambaldi and Glen Robinson.

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** Creator/RickBaker didn't get a proper credit for his onscreen performance as Kong for most of the film because the producers were trying to push [[StarringSpecialEffects the high-tech animatronic as the film's "star"]]. He's only mentioned as having made "special contributions" to the work of Carlo Rambaldi Creator/CarloRambaldi and Glen Robinson.
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** Creator/RickBaker didn't get a proper credit for his onscreen performance as Kong for most of the film because the producers were trying to push [[StarringSpecialEffects the high-tech animatronic as the film's "star"]].

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** Creator/RickBaker didn't get a proper credit for his onscreen performance as Kong for most of the film because the producers were trying to push [[StarringSpecialEffects the high-tech animatronic as the film's "star"]]. He's only mentioned as having made "special contributions" to the work of Carlo Rambaldi and Glen Robinson.

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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RickBaker has nothing good to say about working on this film. When he made a gorilla suit for the newscast scene in ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', he nicknamed it "Dino" as a swipe at De Laurentiis.



* OldShame: Creator/RickBaker has nothing good to say about working on this film. When he made a gorilla suit for the newscast scene in ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', he nicknamed it "Dino" as a swipe at De Laurentiis.

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** Potential directors included Creator/SamPeckinpah, Creator/RomanPolanski, Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/MichaelWinner.



** Kong's original design was a complete departure from being a giant ape as the director felt the audience couldn't sympathize with an animal, calling for the titular character to instead look more like a giant, hairy human. Gradually he was talked out of it, but one can still see the effect in that this movie's King Kong is inexplicably a biped. Early concept art and stills of the robotic Kong show the earlier iterations' look.

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** Originally, Skull Island was going to have more fauna than Kong and the lone scene with the giant python. Jim Danforth was approached to create a stop-motion dinosaur to menace the sailors, but this was cut early on. In a potential adaptation of the infamous lost "Spider-Pit" sequence from the original movie, a sequence involving the sailors being menaced by the same species of python which later battles Kong was also in the script. ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' covered the film prior to its release and a section of this lost "Snake Pit" sequence survives in the article, but it evidently was never filmed.
** Kong's original design was a complete departure from being a giant ape as the director felt the audience couldn't sympathize with an animal, calling for the titular character to instead look more like a giant, hairy human. Gradually he was talked out of it, but one can still see the effect in that this movie's King Kong is inexplicably entirely a biped. Early concept art and stills of the robotic Kong show the earlier iterations' look.



** Potential directors included Creator/SamPeckinpah, Creator/RomanPolanski, Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/MichaelWinner.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/JeffBridges signed because he was a huge fan of the original movie, at times skipping school to watch it on TV.
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** The then-unknown Creator/MerylStreep auditioned for the role of Dwan, but producer Dino De Laurentiis turned her down because he thought she wasn't beautiful enough. Creator/BoDerek was also offered the role (and ultimately got a part in De Laurentiis' [[Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale next beast flick]]). Creator/KimBasinger, Music/{{Cher}}, Creator/BrittEkland, Creator/FarrahFawcett, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/SylviaKristel, Creator/BetteMidler, Creator/ValeriePerrine and Music/BarbraStreisand was considered.

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** The then-unknown Creator/MerylStreep auditioned for the role of Dwan, but producer Dino De Laurentiis turned her down because he thought she wasn't beautiful enough. Creator/BoDerek was also offered the role (and ultimately got a part in De Laurentiis' [[Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale next beast flick]]). Creator/KimBasinger, Music/{{Cher}}, Creator/BrittEkland, Creator/FarrahFawcett, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/SylviaKristel, Creator/BetteMidler, Creator/ValeriePerrine and Music/BarbraStreisand was were also considered.
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** Creator/RickBaker didn't get a proper credit for his onscreen performance as Kong for most of the film because the producers were trying to push the high-tech animatronic as the film's "star".

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** Creator/RickBaker didn't get a proper credit for his onscreen performance as Kong for most of the film because the producers were trying to push [[StarringSpecialEffects the high-tech animatronic as the film's "star"."star"]].
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Subverted. The tabloids speculated at the time that Creator/JeffBridges and Creator/JessicaLange had an on-set affair. This was later revealed to be false -- she was in a relationship with Russian ballet dancer Michael Baryshnikov, and he was engaged, and married in 1977. They ''have'' remained friends since making this film.
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* ShootTheMoney: {{Averted}}. A giant animatronic version of Kong was built and cost 1.7 million dollars to make, but because it didn't look convincing enough, it was only seen in a couple of seconds-long shots. The producers were deeply embarrassed by this, and dishonestly insisted in the credits and ad campaign that the animatronic was used for the bulk of the film rather than giving proper credit to Creator/RickBaker's [[PeopleInRubberSuits performance]].

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