SS Venture, the dodgy boat hired by maverick movie director Carl Denham ( Jack Black) is berthed at Miramar Wharf, Cobham Drive at Miramar Avenue, on Evans Bar, Miramar. Opened in 1914 as the Grand Opera House – one of the largest proscenium arch theatres of its kind in Australasia – the Opera House has now been classified as an Historic Building by the Historic Places Trust of New Zealand. The ‘Lyric Vaudeville Review Theatre’, where Ann Darrow ( Naomi Watts) performs to dwindling audiences before the show closes completely, is Wellington’s Opera House, 111-113 Manners Street. Sections of ‘Times Square’ (which were then economically redressed to double as ‘Herald Square’), ‘Broadway’ and ‘Fifth Avenue’, were built on a vacant plot of land at Seaview, an industrial suburb of Lower Hutt City on Wellington Harbour, northeast of Wellington itself. Just as the director found the diverse landscapes of Tolkien’s ‘Middle Earth’ in his native New Zealand, he strayed no further for both 1930s USA and 'Skull Island', filming mainly around Wellington, on the southern tip of the North Island. Kong without New York? The Depression-era city is every bit as convincing but no more real than ‘Mordor’ in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings.
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