[a fool in paradise]

King Kong was written for the screen (inspired by some fictionalized travelogue films of the 1920s and 30s).

There could be another “King Kong” just as “Star Wars” was written for the screen, and novelized for the “home audience”.

As to what books would adapt well, many feature films were adapted from short stories (Freaks, The Fly, and 2001 among them).

[Oratam]

Is there any background to the writing of King Kong? I mean, whoever wrote the screenplay didn"t make it up out of thin air. It had to have been drawn from some popular stories of the time, e.g. ape man reports from the Pacific Northwest and Canada. J.W. Burns was writing about these things in McLean's in the '20s!

I'd love to read those stories were the origin.