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Will Peter Jackson's King Kong run rings around the original? My giant ape is the most frightening yet, insists director.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20051128
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Byline: KATHERINE BARNEY

IT WAS only an 18-inch model gorilla. But for more than 70 years its chest-thumping and bellowing roars terrorised film fans.

Attempts to recreate the horror of King Kong clambering to the top of the Empire State Building, clutching the screaming heroine in one mammoth hand, have foundered. But now Oscar-winning Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson believes he has created a gorilla even more scary than the first.

King Kong was the creation of British writer Edgar Wallace. He was paid [pounds sterling]500 for six scripts, but never lived to ...

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