In 1975, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis paid RKO for the remake rights to "King Kong". This resulted in "King Kong" (1976). This Kong was an upright walking anthropomorphic ape, appearing even more human-like than the original. Also like the original, this Kong had semi-human intelligence and vast strength. In the 1976 film, Kong was scaled to be tall on Skull island and rescaled to be tall in New York. Ten years later, Dino De Laurentiis got the approval from Universal to do a sequel called "King Kong Lives". This Kong had more or less the same appearance and abilities, but tended to walk on his knuckles more often and was enlarged, scaled to .