Jackson's got game for KING KONG

There's going to be a KING KONG video game!

By Patrick Sauriol     April 14, 2004
Source: New York Times Magazine, Gamespot

While we already know that Peter Jackson's next project will be a remake of Universal's KING KONG, what we didn't know was that there would be a video game based on the new movie. That fact was revealed last weekend in an article appearing in the New York Times Magazine about the growing relationship between movie studios and video game companies.

Two startling items were said in the Times story. First, the KING KONG video game will be released by Ubisoft. This is unusual because Universal Pictures, the studio making and releasing Jackson's KONG, has its own internal games division, Vivendi Universal Games. This may be due to the fallout after last year's sale of Universal's movie division to General Electric who did not pick up VU Games.

The second interesting item in the story was the pronouncement that Jackson could stand to make more money from the sale of KING KONG video games than from making the movie. That's an amazing piece of supposition to make considering that the LORD OF THE RINGS director is guaranteed to get a $20 million dollar paycheck and a piece of the profits from KING KONG. Nevertheless, if the KONG video game is as successful as Electronic Arts' LORD OF THE RINGS video games, it's conceivable big bucks could be made.

[A shout out to Gamespot for spreading the word.]


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