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Peter Jackson will work on smaller films after The Hobbit


The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has said he will be working on films of a smaller scale when he wraps up his time in Middle Earth. He is still working on the Hobbit trilogy with producer wife Fran Walsh, but after finishing with the big-budget adaptation, he hopes to […]

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has said he will be working on films of a smaller scale when he wraps up his time in Middle Earth. He is still working on the Hobbit trilogy with producer wife Fran Walsh, but after finishing with the big-budget adaptation, he hopes to make films in a similar vein to his acclaimed 1994 drama Heavenly Creatures.

“We have got a few bits and pieces that we are working on, Fran and I. The things that we are most excited about are some New Zealand stories,” he told the New Zealand Herald. “We just want to step off the Hollywood blockbuster thing for a while and we’ve had a few New Zealand stories in line for a while that we think would make great films. The ‘Heavenly Creatures’ mode really.”

“But one thing has led to another and we have never had time,” he added. “We’ve made a conscious decision that in the limited years we have left to make movies to tell some New Zealand stories.”

In addition to adapting J.R.R Tolkien’s most beloved novels for the big screen, he directed the 2005 King Kong remake and the 2009 adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones. He also produced the 2011 comic adaptation The Adventures of Tintin and intends to direct the planned sequel. ~Raj-Kabir Birk

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