Kong would’ve been a “midquel” that took place while Kong was being transportedįrom Skull Island to New York, where he escaped into the jungles of Africa. The 1933 classic after the hastily-made Son Cooper tried for years to make another sequel to
It’s not from a lack of trying, though, as LeMay details.ĭirector/producer Merrian C. Only ten official films (plus one upcoming movie) in over eight-and-a-halfĭecades. Pop culture is humungous, his filmography is surprisingly short. Now he brings readers the “lost films” of the granddaddy of all kaiju, King Kong, with Kong Unmade: The Lost Films of Skull Island. Previously he discovered unused scripts and story treatments for famous Japanese monsters like Godzilla and Gamera with the copiously-researched The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films and more down-to-size Japanese science fiction and fantasy films with Terror of the Lost Tokusatsu Films. 1-2, his newest is essentially the third entry in what could be called his Lost Films trilogy. Tokusatsu film historian John LeMay has done it again! After indexing every kaiju (giant monster) movie from the 1950s to today with The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies, Vol. It is available in paperback and KIndle on Amazon. The cover of “Kong Unmade,” the newest book by film historian and kaiju fan John LeMay.
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