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Late last year, The New York Times Theater section took over the Shuttle train between Times Square and Grand Central. The train, which Kathryn Yu caught, was made to look like a Broadway theater including doors between cars that were "backstage", car ceilings that looked like a theater ceiling, but the best might be how the seats in the subway look like theater seats.

The big budget spectacle, King Kong, will open in two weeks, and while most of the trailers seem to play up a fight with Godzilla and lots of jungle scenes (Naomi Watts - hot and sweaty!), part of the story does more to New York. Now, director Peter Jackson decided not to film in NYC because finding 1933 New York in today's New York is difficult. (Gothamist sorta buys that, but we actually believe that once you've created Middle Earth, then you've got a god complex.) The NY Post reports at what the King Kong New York, part model, part computer generated, includes:

Depression-era big town, Model T Fords roll through intersections of red and green streetlights (no yellow), blasting that wheezy dying-duck horn and narrowly missing a swarm of jaywalkers.

Continue reading "King Kongs New York"

Middle Earth Shuttle
Is it a good idea to have a Lord of the Rings "Middle Earth Shuttle" in the New York City subway?