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The Untold Truth Of King Kong s Creators
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By Sam Scott/April 6, 2021 7:02 pm EDT
King Kong is such a part of pop culture that it seems like he s always been around. Those images of the giant ape, of him fighting with prehistoric beasts, menacing a woman chained to an ancient altar, chained up himself in a Broadway theater, climbing the Empire State Building as biplanes circle for the kill hit on such a gut level and have been reproduced and parodied so often that they have some of the power of ancient legends, those stories that have been around who knows how long and were thought up by who knows who.
The Wild and Complicated Story of the Rights to King Kong
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In a world where most characters and franchises have fairly simple rights situations, it would be easy to take for granted how cut and dry most of them really are to us outside observers. Great examples are the entire DC Comics catalogue, which is owned by WarnerMedia for the purposes of comics, films, TV, toys, etc; Jurassic Park, which has been in the hands of Universal for almost three decades; and, naturally, Star Wars, fully controlled by Disney and their subsidiary Lucasfilm. Even another Disney owned property, Marvel, whose rights were previously divided all over Hollywood, is now mostly all in the same place (the deal with Sony with regard to Spider-Man will seemingly never expire). If you look back through popular fiction from almost a century ago, however, things get very tricky, and perhaps none are trickier than the titan who returns to cinemas this week, King Kong.