Forbidden Planet/King Kong Again!

[L. Schulte]

Members might be interested in knowing that "Forbidden Planet" featured the 
first completely electronic music score.
Also, if it is being remade, I do believe Leslie Nielsen in his dotage has 
played the fool in too many movies to return to drama, even a "space opera" 
like "Forbidden Planet".
I have also heard that "Forbidden Planet" was made into a musical., 
q.v.  http://test.cawcutt.com/show.php

Concerning King Kong, the original from 1933 with the great musical score 
by Max Steiner remains much better than the '70's remake, which was written 
by Lorenzo Semple, famous or infamous for the 1960's "Batman" TV show.  I 
have read that in the 1970's someone planned to re-create the original 1933 
script with only a few updates in language, with the original Max Steiner 
score, and of course up-to-date special effects.  But the disastrous 
Jessica Lange version, financed by Dino de Laurentis, received a green 
light instead.  Let us hope that any third version will return to the 
original: and if you do not know the original, watch it especially for the 
incredible rock-'em sock-'em performance of Robert Armstrong as the 
adventurer/showman who brings King Kong to New York.  And Fay Wray, the 
heroine, is still alive today, in her mid or late 90's! 
q.v.  http://www.shillpages.com/faywray/fwmain.shtml

I would like to read what Mr. Rosa thinks of "King Kong", now that he has 
revealed that "Forbidden Planet" is his choice for greatest SF movie of all 
time, which I tend to agree with.