Andy Serkis (Gollum from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy) is playing King Kong as well as a regular acting part in the Peter Jackson remake of the 30's classic. He's joining Jack Black (of Tenacious-D and School of Rock fame), Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody on the casting line-up.
If you read the "Gollum Actor 'To Play' King Kong" story (BBC On-Line; Friday 11th June 2004) please ignore them called Gollum a 'warped hobbit'. Grrr....
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Best scene ever cut.
Plus if they'd included that, the total amount of times that Frodo gets his arse kicked would have gone up by 2 more times, bringing the total to 4 or possibly 5, which would make him out to be a pretty lame-ass hero for people that haven't read the books.
Only good thing about the scene would be, as you say, Frodo getting his arse kicked (thus we would know more about the barrows) and Goldberry.
Not only would he get his arse kicked in the Barrows, he would also get it kicked in the Old Forest by a tree. A bloody tree for crying out loud. The fate of Middle-Earth rests in the hands of a being that can't take on an immobile oak tree and expect to win!
I never really liked Fellowship of the Ring (the book), at least in part because the hero got the crap kicked out of him a little too much. Frodo was, quite frankly, useless. I know he was supposed to come over as being not quite hero material (as were all the Hobbits) but I think Tolkien went a little overboard. Plus the other Hobbits manage to overcome their ineptitude, but Frodo really doesn't and that's a shame.