The military""s Apache helicopters ordered o fire at the creature atop the LexCorp building""s tower (with homage to King Kong) seemed to only make the monster more powerful and energized.The film was the first Best Picture Oscar winner to be adapted into a regular prime-time TV series (NBC: 1988-1992 and CBS: 1992-1995), with Carroll O""Connor as Sheriff Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Virgil Tibbs.The tide of battle turned when Aragorn arrived with the Dead Men Army and routed the Orcs, and then released them from their curse ("I hold your oath fulfilled." [His words are prophetic, since the political boss has underestimated the depth of his convictions.Accompanying a panning shot of theUSS Sulacoescape pod that brought her to the planet was a static-filled sound recording of Lt.