King of the Lost World
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Directed by	Leigh Scott
Written by	David Michael Latt Carlos De Los Rios Leigh Scott
Produced by	David Michael Latt David Rimawi Paul Bales
Starring	Bruce Boxleitner Jeff Denton Rhett Giles Steve Railsback Thomas Downey
Cinematography	Steven Parker
Edited by	David Michael Latt
Music by	Ralph Rieckermann
Distributed by	The Asylum
Release date	December 15, 2005 (2005-12-15)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,000,000

King of the Lost World is a 2005 Americanfantasymonsteradventure film produced byThe Asylum. The film is adapted loosely from the 1912 novelThe Lost World byArthur Conan Doyle, the creator ofSherlock Holmes, but the film bears a closer resemblance tothe remake ofKing Kong released in the same year, particularly as both stories center on a giant ape.^[1] Hence,King of the Lost World is amockbuster of that film, a tradition thatThe Asylum usually undertakes.

Aplane crashes in a remotejungle. Many survive, but the front end of the plane and the cockpit are nowhere to be found. The only way to seek help is to find the cockpit and radio a message.

Ed Malone (Jeff Denton) climbs a small hill and sees the cockpit about a mile distant. A group decides to leave the plane to search for the radio. John Roxton (Rhett Giles) leads the group through the jungle. The remaining survivors stay at the crash site in case a plane passes by.

The group arrives at the fuselage to learn that it's not part of the plane they crashed in. In addition, the radio and critical instruments have been stripped and removed. They are startled by the arrival ofLieutenant ColonelChallenger (Bruce Boxleitner), who managed to travel alone to the downed plane, carrying abriefcase he doesn't seem to want to part with.

The group continues to look for the cockpit with some individuals being killed or lost along the way. They encounter a military plane. Challenger tries to rig a missile as a signal gun, but fails. The group finds a cavern for shelter that night, and are attacked by giant prehistoricscorpions (Brontoscorpio). John and Tianka are killed, while a desperate Ed, Challenger, Rita, Dana, and Natalie flee for safety. As they escape from the stream, they are captured by natives living on a plateau. It is learned that the natives have been stripping the planes to avoid outsiders. The natives are discovered to be survivors from a crash long ago, and have developed a sacrificial rite to appease the creatures of the jungle. Dana and Natalie are brainwashed into joining them, while Ed is chosen as the sacrifice.

However, the sacrificial ceremony fails when a giant ape (Gigantopithecus) attacks a swarm of flyingdragon-like lizards, and Dana (who faked being brainwashed) saves Ed. They meet up with Challenger and Rita, then spot military jets overhead, moving in to attack the giant ape, but are destroyed. Challenger kills a native, but dies during the ape's rampage, leaving Ed to fight it alone.

Ed detonates a nuclear bomb from a crashed plane and successfully kills the ape, but also destroys their cockpit, trapping Ed, Rita, and Dana in the jungle. They contemplate dying, to which Ed tersely replies,"Not today," as they stare in the distance. However, one of the Flying giant lizards survived the nuclear bomb detonation.

• Bruce Boxleitner asLieutenant ColonelChallenger
• Jeff Denton as Ed Malone
• Rhett Giles asJohn Roxton
• Sarah Lieving as Rita Summerlee
• Christina Rosenberg as Dana
• Steve Railsback as Larry
• Chriss Anglin as Olo
• Amanda Ward as Natalie
• Boni Yanagisawa as Tianka
• Andrew Lauer as Steven
• Thomas Downey as Reggie
• Amanda Barton as Taylor
• James Ferris as Yuri
• Jennifer Lee Wiggins as Etienne
• Angela Horvath as Chrissy
• Eliza Swenson as Gloria

• The setting is the 21st century rather than the early 20th century.
• In the novel byArthur Conan Doyle, it was made clear that Ed Malone wasIrish. In this film he isAmerican.
• In the novel, the character ofProfessor Challenger was a misanthropic scientist. In this film, he is a lieutenant colonel in theUnited States Air Force.
• The character of Professor Summerlee is now a woman named Rita Summerlee.
• The expedition in the novel originally journeyed to the Lost World to prove Prof. Challenger's claims thatdinosaurs lived in modern times. In the film, the expedition accidentally crash-land into the Lost World.
• There was no giant ape in the novel, the original antagonists were a race ofape-men living in the Lost World.
• In the film, the characters are stranded on an island, however, in the novel and previous film adaptions, the story takes place on aplateau.
• There areBrontoscorpios (giant scorpions), giant spiders, man-eating vines and giant winged lizards in the film. In the novel there are only dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
• In the movie many characters, including Challenger and John Roxton die. However they survive in the original novel.

HorrorTalk found the movie to be one of the Asylum's best, stating "The bottom line is King is a fun romp through the jungle from beginning to end."^[2]

Dread Central agreed it was a better work, but criticized the third act as convoluted, as well as lacking the titular ape.^[3]

• King of the Lost World at The AsylumArchived 2009-02-27 at theWayback Machine
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