Strap in, children, that is going to arrange fairly the Kong-frontation between King Kong and King Kong. Deadline revealed that the long-lasting ape is heading to Disney+ for a brand new reside motion sequence from James Wan’s Atomic Monster and author Stefany Folsom (Paper Girls). Yes, that’s along with Warner Bros.’ upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong sequel from Adam Wingard due out in 2024—as effectively as Legendary’s Monsterverse Kong: Skull Island animated sequence that’s set for Netflix, launch date TBD. Oh—and people Kong rides at Universal Studios primarily based on the Peter Jackson movie.

Deadline shared an outline of the Disney’s King Kong present, which will likely be “a serialized action/adventure drama that brings the classic monster story into the modern age, with a return to Skull Island and the dawn of a new Kong. The series will explore the mythology of King Kong’s origin story and the supernatural mysteries of his home based on IP from Merian C. Cooper’s original books and the new King Kong novelizations by Joe DeVito.”

Disney steps up as a brand new participant within the ring for the Kong challenge rumble. How, you could ask, is that this even a factor when Cooper’s 1933 movie received’t be within the public area till 2029? Well that’s as a result of the movie, theme park rights, and tv rights are everywhere. As Comic Book.com has reported, there’s a loophole that’s freed up Kong for the taking within the type of the novelization of Cooper’s King Kong film: “In essence the rights to King Kong seem to boil down primarily to the fact that the various interpretations of the character are owned by the company that produced them and that the novelization of Kong being in the public domain frees him up to adaptation by anyone as long as they go off of that book.”

As Deadline notes, this new King Kong present is being made in cooperation with the Merian C. Cooper Estate, which has teamed up with artist DeVito to provide new novelizations that will likely be used as supply materials for the sequence, together with the unique e-book. So Universal, Legendary, Warner Bros., Toho, and now Disney have their very own Kong. Maybe he’s the unique king of the multiverse.

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