Netflix's King Kong 2050: Cartoon Series

[ARNie]

Guess in this one it won't be The Beauty Who Killed The Beast...

King Kong is coming to Netflix in 2016, but the animated Kong – King of the Apes won’t be telling the same old Skull Island story you’re used to hearing.

Set in 2050, Kong becomes a wanted fugitive after wrecking havoc at Alcatraz Island’s Natural History and Marine Preserve. What most humans on the hunt for the formidable animal don’t realize, though, is that Kong was framed by an evil genius who plans to terrorize the world with an army of enormous robotic dinosaurs. As the only beast strong enough to save humanity from the mechanical dinos, Kong must rely on the help of three kids who know the truth about him.

The original CGI animation series from Netflix and 41 Entertainment will be targeted at kids and introduced through a feature-length film that will be followed by 12 half-hour episodes starting in 2016. Industry vet Avi Arad, who’s produced Iron Man, the Spider-Man movies, and many of the X-Men films, is serving as executive producer on the series.

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How does this make you feel?

[Chris]

Soubnds strange

[Suicide]

This is an odd thing, but I'm always down for more animated series.

[Bill K.]

Also not the first time King Kong was an animated cartoon. In 1966, an American animation network, in conjunction with ABC, commissioned a Japanese animation studio to produce an animated King Kong series. The result was sort of a "Gigantor with apes", with Kong and his little boy buddy Billy Bond facing danger and, um, bonding.

And if that wasn't weird enough, the middle feature in the show was "Tom Of T.H.U.M.B.", about a secret agent who was six inches tall. Hey, I watched it. I didn't have a lot of taste when I was nine.

[Suicide]

I know that show indeed. There was also the Kong: The Animated Series in 2000 by BKN. Strange that this franchise just seems to linger on in spurts of marketability from time to time.