‘King of Kong’ is being made into a narrative movie?

Seth Gorden talked to FirstShowing about the status of ‘The King of Kong’ remake, and it surprised the Hell out of me!

Those who have seen the doc know that there is already a great story from within the film to pull from, so in essence, not that many changes really needed to be made. “There’s going to be less of the talking heads,” Gordon says at first. “And we couldn’t be everywhere for the making of the documentary, so some stuff had to be done that way. So we’ll show the moments we weren’t able to be present for, but in terms of the story, it’s going to be a very similar story– about Wiebe losing his job, rediscovering Kong, thinking he’s the best in the world at something only to have it taken away by a guy who won’t let go of his title.” Thankfully this all makes sense and it doesn’t sound like too much of a departure from the original.

Wow, this is incredible. For those of you that have seen the documentary you know that the story here is incredible and almost make believe until you realize that Billy Mitchell really is a crazy bastard and he cant let go of what was once his pride and glory. I think a non-documentary version of the film will do really well, especially with the video game community. I don’t know if they will be able to find someone to play Steve Wiebe as well as he came off in the doc, but I am certain they will try.