Adrien Brody to play big hard-boiled egg that looks at a pretty face then cracks up & goes sappy in KING KONG!

Hey folks, Harry here with the latest casting on KING KONG - Variety announced that Adrien Brody has been cast to play Jack Driscoll, the drunk on the brine of the sea man that's known nothing but the hard love of the ocean. He's tough as nails, having spent his entire life aboard Englehorn's ship filled with the toughest mugs around, and he's never found anything, but trouble in the women that frequent the docks and piers he sails in and out of. He's the atypical Bogart role... the tough guy that sticks his neck out for nobody, but goes sappy on a broad that brushes away the cobwebs about his atrophied heart.

Adrien Brody is perfect to play Jack Driscoll... Jack isn't some pretty boy, he's an awkward fella that's never had a life away from that boat that he cares to remember. He's not dapper and he doesn't look right in a tux. Words don't come easy to him and action isn't what he was built for. Remember, Jack doesn't fist fight anyone. Jack isn't a swordfighter or a dynamic man of action. He's just one of the mugs on a ship of mugs, the first mate maybe, but he ain't no hero, to coin a double negative. What Driscoll is, is someone with an indomitable spirit to never give up. He's the guy who'd walk over a field of broken glass barefoot to save Ann. He won't come out smiling, he'll come out... BARELY. Huffing and puffing, he has never run more in his life than he does on Skull Island. He's never hid or had to be this ingenius before. He's rising to the occasion, not taking it in stride. There was a part of me that was wanting John C Reilly, because he, like Brody, you don't imagine with a gorgeous movie star wife. He's got eyes that need to be picked up, a heart that needs massaged and once its beating, he'll fight tooth and nail to make sure it keeps on. That's Jack Driscoll.

Go back and watch Adrien Brody in DUMMY or PIANO... Look at him in SUMMER OF SAM. He's tremendous and in those three films he exhibits every ounce of what is necessary to be a great Jack Driscoll. Couldn't be happier with this casting!