Kong is coming

Wired magazine’s October issue features a lavish 16-page look at Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong, due to hit cinemas this December. Wired examines the greatly anticipated film through an extensive selection of behind the scenes images in a King Kong portfolio by Art Streiber and Jackson’s online diary entries found on kongisking.net. The “post-production diaries” started last September, chronicle the making of King Kong in bite sized three to four minute installments of footage, that when complete will have a collective running time of nearly six and a half hours. “The Kongisking journals are more than a mere tease. They have blossomed into a real-time documentary about the making of King Kong, the world’s first comprehensive, downloadable study of how a $175 million movie gets made, down to the last fleck of modeling clay.”