Universal Pictures is taking a new approach to boost its upcoming King Kong film, releasing a DVD that documents that movie’s making the day before it hits theaters.
The King Kong Peter Jackson’s Production Diaries DVD marks the first time a movie studio will ship a behind-the-scenes look at a film before its theatrical release. The two-disc DVD set and companion book hits stores Dec. 13. The DVD set includes a first-person account of the film’s eight-month production process. The companion book includes film set art and scenery and other movie-making facets.
Typically, the DVD version of a film follows its four- to six-month run in theaters.
Universal’s King Kong follows the 1933 version of the original classic, in which a film director and leading lady search out the largest gorilla in the world and underestimate its size and strength. Dino DeLaurentis did a remake of the film in 1976 that put King Kong atop of the World Trade Center. King Kong opens in theaters nationwide on Dec. 14.
Network
