THE PEOPLE VS. PETER JACKSON

If you were able to become one of your characters for a single day, who would it be?

TOM HARDMAN

Well, it would be quite good being King Kong, because I would get to see dinosaurs and stuff. As long as it’s not the New York part of the story, as long as it was just beating up Tyrannosauruses. If I was Kong, I would be in charge of keeping the dinosaurs in order on Skull Island.

How often do you abandon a concept or a screenplay because you can’t make it work?

MATT GRIFFITHS

I don’t think that has ever happened. There are scripts we have written that have never been made, but that is not because we have abandoned them. We wrote a script for a thing called many years ago — a comic-book thing around time. We wrote it, delivered it, I think it was for Fox, and it never got made. We haven’t got too many of those either. In terms of starting a script and bashing our heads against a wall, I don’t think this has ever happened. If you are starting a script it is because, inherently, your gut tells you there is a story in there. Whether it is based on a novel or an original idea, you are sniffing out a story. Crafting and shaping a story is a clinical kind of exercise in some