Fan CastingKing Kong (1976)

Description of Stop Motion Animation:

Dino De Laurentiis asked Ray Harryhausen to animate Kong in stop motion for the film, but he declined since there was a 12 month window to work, which was far too short for the complicated animation needed for stop motion. Originally, Skull Island was going to have more fauna than Kong and the lone scene with the giant python. Jim Danforth was approached to create a stop-motion dinosaur to menace the sailors, but this was cut early on. In a potential adaptation of the infamous lost "Spider-Pit" sequence from the original movie, a sequence involving the sailors being menaced by the same species of python which later battles Kong was also in the script. But it evidently was never filmed.