{"id":54523,"date":"2022-08-24T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/king-kong-tv-series-in-works-at-disney-from-disney-branded-television-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T03:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T03:16:00","slug":"king-kong-tv-series-in-works-at-disney-from-disney-branded-television-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/king-kong-tv-series-in-works-at-disney-from-disney-branded-television-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;King Kong&#8217; TV Series In Works At Disney+ From Disney Branded Television \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> An iconic monster is headed to Disney+.  Disney Branded Television is in very early development on<em> King Kong<\/em> (working title), a series for Disney+ tracking the original story of the famous ape.  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style=\"fill:#d0021b;fill-rule:evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  pmc-u-font-size-16 pmc-u-font-family-balto pmc-u-margin-b-00 pmc-u-line-height-small\">Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>write by <em>Paper Girls<\/em> creator Stephany Folsom, <em>King Kong<\/em> is 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&#8217;s origin story and the supernatural mysteries of his home based on IP from Merian C. Cooper&#8217;s original books and the new King Kong novelizations by Joe DeVito.<\/p>\n<p>Folsom executive produces alongside Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster and Dannie Festa and Marc Manus for World Builder Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The Merian C. Cooper Estate had teamed with DeVito to produce new novelizations that are being used as source material for the series, along with the original book IP.<\/p>\n<p>A live action series, <em>King Kong Skull Island, <\/em>was in development at MarVista Entertainment and IM Global Television five years ago with a different creative team, also based on Cooper&#8217;s <em>King Kong<\/em> and DeVito ArtWorks&#8217; <em>Skull Island<\/em>, with Festa executive producing.  It did not come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>King Kong, a 90-year-old character with an entangled web of rights, has been the subject of a slew of movies, most recently featured in Legendary\/Warner Bros&#8217; Monsterverse, which only uses the Kong part of the gorilla monster&#8217;s moniker for its titles: 2017&#8217;s <em>Kong: Skull Island,<\/em> 2019&#8217;s <em>Godzilla: King of the Monsters,<\/em> and 2021&#8217;s <em>Godzilla vs.  kong,<\/em> followed by a Netflix anime series, <em>Skull Island.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Wan, whose TV producing credits include <em>MacGyver<\/em> and<em> Swamp Thing<\/em>is repped by CAA, Stacey Testro International and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger &#038; Light.<\/p>\n<p>Folsom, who created and executive produces Amazon&#8217;s sci-fi series <em>Paper Girls<\/em> and also worked on the streamer&#8217;s upcoming fantasy series <span class=\"a-size-base-plus a-text-bold\"><em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em>,<\/span> is repped by Verve, Kaplan\/Perrone and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>Property rights holder DeVito ArtWorks is repped by Festa of World Builder Entertainment and the legal team of Darren Trattner of Jackoway Tyerman and Robert Siegel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n        n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n    }\n    ;\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '422369225140645');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: An iconic monster is headed to Disney+. Disney Branded Television is in very early development on King Kong (working title), a series for Disney+ tracking the original story of the famous ape. Deals have just closed for the project, from James Wan&#8217;s Atomic Monster, which would mark the first live-action series set in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/king-kong-tv-series-in-works-at-disney-from-disney-branded-television-deadline\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;King Kong&#8217; TV Series In Works At Disney+ From Disney Branded Television \u2013 Deadline<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54564,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/king-kong-live-action-series-in-early-development-at-disney\/","url_meta":{"origin":54523,"position":0},"title":"King Kong Live-Action Series in Early Development at Disney+","date":"August 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A live-action series about the origin of King Kong is in early development at Disney+, variety has confirmed. 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