King Kong Lives (1986) is an exciting action-adventure film directed by John Guillermin and Charles McCracken. Written by Ronald Shusett, Steven Pressfield, and Merian C. Cooper and starring Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, and Peter Elliott, the film follows the events after Kong falls from the Twin Towers and is revived with an artificial heart. When he senses another Kong in the area, the chaos begins and it's up to the cast to stop him.