While Tank Girl was a relatively small project, Congo was a big one - and Stan Winston had wanted it badly, for a number of reasons. For one, Congo had much in common with Jurassic Park, Stan Winston's most successful endeavor to date. Congo was based on a popular novel by Michael Crichton, just as Jurassic Park had been. Kathleen Kennedy, one of Jurassic Park 's producers, was producing the film. And Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy's husband and another longtime associate of Steven Spielberg's, was directing. But an even more compelling lure was that Congo would offer Stan Winston the long-sought opportunity to create gorillas. Through his work on Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and Gorillas In the Mist (1988), Rick Baker had built a reputation for creating stunningly realistic apes. If Stan Winston was the 'robot man', Rick Baker was the 'ape-man'. Stan Winston's naturally competitive nature drove him to challenge Rick Baker's turf. "Congo was kind of a proving ground for me," Stan admitted, "or, at least, that's what I had wanted it to be. I wanted to show the world that we could do gorillas, too, and do them well."

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