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In today's episode, I interview Ray Morton, author of the book, King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon –Revised and Updated Edition.

Listen to hear about why King Kong has endured in popular culture for nearly a century, what the future of King Kong may look like, and Ray's own King Kong sculpture made out of snow.

Books mentioned in this episode include:

• King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon –Revised and Updated Edition by Ray Morton
• Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film that Sank United Artists – A Witty Insider Account of Epic Hollywood Disaster and Human Absurdity by Steven Bach
• Fever: The Complete History of Saturday Night Fever by Margo Donohue
• Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
• Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin

Films and TV shows mentioned in this episode include:

• King Kong (1933) directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• King Kong (1976) directed by John Guillermin
• King Kong (2005) directed by Peter Jackson
• Kong: Skull Island directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
• Godzilla vs. Kong directed by Adam Wingard
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire directed by Adam Wingard
• Skull Island (series)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (series)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed by Steven Spielberg
• Local Hero directed by Bill Forsyth
• The Apartment directed by Billy Wilder
• James Bond (series)
• Superman, The Movie directed by Richard Donner

You can follow Ray on Instagram @raymorton1 and you can find his website at raymorton.com.

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