Trivia: DEEP RISING & KING KONG

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TRIVIA---countdown to Halloween.
Stephen Sommers' monster movie DEEP RISING featured a giant tentacled sea monster, the Octalus, feasting on the passengers and crew of the luxury ocean liner SS Argonautica.
In the final scene, the survivors, Finnegan (Treat Williams), Trillian (Famke Janssen) and Joey (Kevin J. O' Connor), wash up on the shore of a deserted island. They are thankful they were not eaten by the Octalus , blown up when the Argonautica exploded or drowned after it sank. But their gratitude ends when they hear a giant roar from the jungle and something gigantic is knocking down trees as it heads for them. The movie ends with Joey asking, "Now what?"
The "Now what?" refers to DEEP RISING's sequel----Sommers was supposed to write and direct the sequel in which the three survivors really washed up on Skull Island, the home of King Kong. The sequel/KING KONG remake languished in the development stage for years until Peter Jackson got the rights which resulted in his hugely successful 2005 remake.

Stephen Sommers' monster movie DEEP RISING featured a giant tentacled sea monster, the Octalus, feasting on the passengers and crew of the luxury ocean liner SS Argonautica.




In the final scene, the survivors, Finnegan (Treat Williams), Trillian (Famke Janssen) and Joey (Kevin J. O' Connor), wash up on the shore of a deserted island. They are thankful they were not eaten by the Octalus , blown up when the Argonautica exploded or drowned after it sank. But their gratitude ends when they hear a giant roar from the jungle and something gigantic is knocking down trees as it heads for them. The movie ends with Joey asking, "Now what?"








The "Now what?" refers to DEEP RISING's sequel----Sommers was supposed to write and direct the sequel in which the three survivors really washed up on Skull Island, the home of King Kong. The sequel/KING KONG remake languished in the development stage for years until Peter Jackson got the rights which resulted in his hugely successful 2005 remake.