|
December 21, 2005
Full Cast Audio Brings Us Joe DeVito and
Brad Strickland's Take On King Kong!!! Hearing Is
Believing!!!
 Syracuse,
NY Dec. 12, 2005--If Peter Jackson’s King Kong is a visual
spectacle, then Full Cast Audio’s King Kong is an auditory
extravaganza.
Experience Kong without special effects or computer
animation: With a dozen actors using nothing but their
voices to re-create this classic in Full Cast Audio’s
production of “Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong,” by Joe DeVito
and Brad Strickland, released today.
“Merian C. Cooper’s King
Kong,” authorized by the estate of King Kong’s creator, is
an updated and expanded version of the 1932 novel that was
based on the original movie script but released before the
1933 landmark film.
Full Cast’s unabridged
recording, complete with an original score, will transport
listeners back to the 1930s with the sounds and
sensibilities of a radio drama.
“There was just a real joy in
going back to this great, great adventure story and creating
it in this new format,” said Bruce Coville, of
Syracuse, Full Cast Audio’s president and also a
best-selling children’s author.
Full Cast Audio, a small
audiobook publishing company in Syracuse, NY,
rushed production of the novel to coincide with this
winter’s Kong mania, but Coville – who’ll only publish
audiobooks he loves—said it was just plain old fun.
“We figured it would be a big
seller,” Coville said. “But even more, we knew it was going
to be fun, and that the book Brad and Joe had written would
work phenomenally well in our format. I haven't seen so
many actors this excited since the last time Mickey Rooney
and Judy Garland said, ‘Hey kids, let's put on a show!’”
Coville calls the novel by
DeVito and Strickland the most faithful retelling of the
classic, but with a few changes that update the story: A
more appropriate treatment of the Skull Island
natives, more accurate dinosaur science, and more
fully-realized action scenes.
“This is unique in that it’s
most true to the original version without having some of the
flaws of the original,” Coville said. “It’s the same, but
better.”
To hear the production’s
opening, go to
fullcastaudio.com/kongsample.mp3.
The recording runs about seven hours on six CDs. It sells
for $37 and is available through
www.fullcastaudio.com,
www.amazon.com or by calling (800) 871-6152. A
downloadable version is available from
www.audible.com.
Reporters can request a copy
of the recording, interviews or a company press kit by
contacting Jeanne Albanese at (315) 480-1357
or prdept@fullcastaudio.com.
About
Full Cast Audio: Full Cast Audio, in
Syracuse, NY, is the only audiobook publishing company owned
by a children’s author. Founded by best-selling author Bruce
Coville, the company produces unabridged recordings of
children’s and young adult titles using a full cast of
actors and original music.
|
