King Kong Lives

King Kong Lives (1986)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1986-12-16

Country

United States

Production

DEG

Genre

Fantasy, Action, Adventure

Budget

$10 000 000

Revenue

$4 711 220

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Director

John Guillermin

Actors

Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz, Peter Elliott, Frank Maraden, George Antoni, Robin Cahall, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Michael Forest
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Scenario

Producer

Martha De Laurentiis, Dino De Laurentiis

Operator

Alec Mills

Composer

John Scott

Artist

Audition

Editing

Malcolm Cooke
All team (48)

• The film ranks 15th in attendance among foreign films in Soviet cinema distribution.
• In Japan, the film was shown as "King Kong 2".
• Peter Michael Getz received a check for 3 cents after the film's run. He stapled the check to the film's poster in his house and never cashed it.
• Linda Hamilton agreed to star in the film after seeing how filming in the first film ('King Kong', 1976, John Guillermin) made Jessica Lange a major star. During filming, she had no idea what the final result would be like, and when she saw the film, she was horrified – and rightly so, because both critics and audiences considered it terrible.
• During the filming of this movie, director John Gilleremin was in mourning for his son, Michael, who died during the filming of his previous adventure film, "Sheena – Queen of the Jungle" (1984). It often happened that right in the middle of the workday, he would halt filming and go sailing. Once, after another scandal (and he was a notorious troublemaker), he disappeared for several days. The filming was completed for him by documentarian Charles McCrecken, who was only 21 years old at the time.
• During the filming of this movie, director John Gillerermin was in mourning for his son, Michael, who had died on the set of his previous adventure film, "Sheena – Queen of the Jungle" (1984). It often happened that right in the middle of the workday he would halt filming and go sailing. Once, after another scandal (and he was a notorious troublemaker), he disappeared for several days. The filming was completed for him by documentarian Charles McCrecken, who was only 21 years old at the time.