Mighty Joe Young is a 1998 American adventure film based on the 1949 film of the same name about a giant mountain gorilla brought to a wildlife preserve in Los Angeles by a young woman who raised him and a zoologist to protect him from the threat of poachers until one seeks Joe out in order to take his revenge. It was directed by Ron Underwood and stars Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron, and creature suit actor John Alexander as the title character. In this version, the ape is much larger than in the original. The film grossed $50.6 million in the United States against a production budget of $90 million.
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Directed by | Ron Underwood |
Produced by | Ted Hartley Tom Jacobson |
Screenplay by | Mark Rosenthal Lawrence Konner |
Based on | Mighty Joe Young by Merian C. Cooper Ruth Rose |
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Music by | James Horner |
Cinematography | Donald Peterman Oliver Wood |
Edited by | Paul Hirsch |
Production company | Walt Disney Pictures RKO Pictures The Jacobson Company |
Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $90 million |
Box office | $50.6 million (US) |
Screenplay
As a child, Jill Young witnesses the death of her mother, primatologist Ruth Young, and the mother of Joe, an infant mountain gorilla, at the hands of poachers led by Andrei Strasser, who loses his right thumb and trigger finger to Joe, swearing revenge.
Twelve years later, Jill has raised Joe, now grown to a height of 15 feet (4.6 m) and weighing 2,000 pounds (910 kg). As a result, other gorillas will not accept him and they are both now living in relative peace until a wildlife refuge director, Gregg O'Hara, convinces Jill they would be safer from poachers if they relocated to the United States.
The trio goes to Los Angeles, and win the hearts of the refuge staff at the conservancy, who put Jill in charge of Joe. Jill is approached by Strasser, who is now running a fraudulent animal preserve in Botswana, while actually selling animal organs on the black market. After seeing a news report about Joe, he is eager for revenge. At first Jill does not recognize Strasser, since Strasser's right hand is concealed in his coat pocket. He attempts to convince Jill that Joe would be better off in his wildlife refuge back in Africa. During a gala, Strasser's henchman, Garth, uses a poacher's noisemaker to scare Joe into a frenzy. Joe trashes the gala, with the intention of attacking Strasser, but is captured, and imprisoned in a concrete bunker.
When Jill discovers that Joe may be euthanized, she accepts Strasser's offer. She and the refuge staff smuggle Joe out in a truck. Before their departure, Gregg has fallen in love with Jill and kisses her goodbye. On the way to the airport, Jill notices the half-glove covering Strasser's missing fingers and recognizes him. She fights Strasser and Garth, then jumps from the truck onto Hollywood Boulevard, leading to several automobile accidents. Joe sees her and tilts the truck over onto its side and flees.
Gregg discovers that Strasser is a poacher and goes after Jill and Joe. He finds Jill, who reveals to Gregg that Strasser killed her mother and now plans to kill Joe. They track Joe to a carnival where he is playfully wreaking havoc. Strasser arrives as well and attempts to shoot Jill, but Garth, appalled at Strasser's ruthlessness, turns against him and saves Jill, causing Strasser to misfire at a spotlight, starting a fire and causing the Ferris wheel to break down. After knocking Garth unconscious, Strasser attempts to kill Jill in person, but Joe sneaks up behind them and throws Strasser onto a power line over a transformer. Short two fingers on the hand holding the wire, Strasser loses his grip and falls onto the transformer, where he is electrocuted to death.
Later, at the Santa Monica Pier, Joe attempts to save a child from atop the burning wheel, but the fire burns it down and Joe and the child fall to the ground, where Joe jumps off of the burning wheel, protecting the boy and knocking himself unconscious. Joe survives the fall and awakens and Jill mentions that they need to raise money to open a preserve for him. The young boy named Jason donates some change to Jill after hearing this, prompting the rest of the crowd to contribute.
Joe is returned to Uganda's Mgahinga Gorilla National Park where Jill and Gregg open the "Joe Young Preserve". Finally free, Joe runs off into the jungle.
- Bill Paxton as Professor Gregory "Gregg" O'Hara, a zoologist who finds Joe in the wild and develops a relationship with Jill.
- Charlize Theron as Jill Young, a young woman who is Joe's best friend and protecter after they were both orphaned by the same poacher.
- John Alexander as Mighty Joe Young, a mountain gorilla who due to a rare form of gigantism is 15 feet tall and 2,000 pounds and is the sacred guardian of the Virunga Mountains. He is Jill's best friend since they were orphaned by the same poacher. Joe was designed and created by special makeup effects legend Rick Baker.
- Verne Troyer as Baby Joe Young
- Mighty Joe Young puppeteers, Mark Setrakian, Mike Elizalde, Jurgen Heimann, Steven Sherman
- Rade Šerbedžija as Andrei Strasser, a poacher who seek revenge on Joe after he bit off his thumb and index finger when he was an infant. He is the poacher who murdered both Jill's and Joe's mothers.
- Regina King as Cecily Banks, a zoologist and Gregg's friend working at the wildlife preserve who immediately befriends Jill and Joe.
- Peter Firth as Garth, Strasser's right hand man who isn't as ruthless as Strasser.
- Naveen Andrews as Pindi, a local guide and employee of Strasser.
- David Paymer as Harry Ruben, the supervisor at the wildlife preserve that Joe is relieved to.
- Robert Wisdom as Kweli, a local Ugandan man who was friend of Jill's mother and a surrogate father figure to Jill.
- Christian Clemenson as Jack
- Scarlett Pomers as Charlotte
- Geoffrey Blake as Vern
- Lawrence Pressman as Doctor Elliot Baker
- Linda Purl as Doctor Ruth Young, Jill's primatologist mother who was murdered by Strasser.
- Mika Boorem as Young Jill Young
- Cory Buck as Jason, a young boy who gets caught on the burning Farris wheel.
- Reno Wilson as Poacher
- Judson Mills as Impatient Driver
Cinematographer Donald Peterman suffered head injuries, a broken leg and broken ribs in a crane accident on the film set in 1997. His camera platform plummeted 18 feet (5.5 m) to the ground when the crane snapped. A cameraman was also injured in the accident.
In most of the film, Joe was portrayed by creature-suit performer John Alexander, who wore a radio-controlled animatronic gorilla mask and full body suit created by special makeup effects artist Rick Baker and his crew at Cinovation Studios. To achieve those scenes, Alexander often acted on miniature sets surrounded by blue screen; visual-effects house DreamQuest Images then composited him into footage shot earlier. Joe as an infant was performed by Verne Troyer. For certain scenes, the filmmakers used three full-sized animatronics (one in quadruped, one sitting down, and one in a dead position) also created by Baker's crew. For the digital Joe, visual-effects houses DreamQuest Images and Industrial Light & Magic worked on different scenes, using the same model provided by Baker. Many of these performances were achieved by key-frame animation, but to portray the digital Joe running and jumping, motion-capture data from an infant chimpanzee were used.
The music for the film was composed and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released in December 1998. The song "Dedication and Windsong" is recorded in the Swahili language by the Watoto Children's Choir.
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Soundtrack album by James Horner | ||||
Released | December 8, 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1998 | |||
Length | 73:01 | |||
Label | Hollywood | |||
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The film grossed $50.6 million against a production budget of $90 million. and holds a rating of 52% from Rotten Tomatoes based on 46 reviews. The site's critical consensus is: "Beguiling effects transcend a predictable plot."
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars out of 4, saying, "Mighty Joe Young is an energet
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