Peter Jackson Responds to Claims He's Retired Amid 11-Year Hiatus from Filmmaking
Peter Jackson is responding to the claims that he’s done with filmmaking.
The 63-year-old Lord of the Rings director directed his last narrative film in 2014 with the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Since then, he’s shifted his focus to producing and directing documentaries.
Now, Peter is answering whether or not he’s retiring from directing movies.
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According to Peter, he’s not ready to call himself retired from the world of filmmaking just yet. He spoke to ScreenRant about the future of his film career.
“No, no. I’m certainly not retired. We are currently working on three different screenplays. I’m at the moment writing three different scripts,” Peter told the publication.
Peter said that he’s currently enjoying making documentaries, but it’s not the only thing he’s been doing in his filmmaking hiatus.
He shared during the interview that currently, his main priority is Colossal, the biosciences company he’s invested in. The company is in the process of trying to bring back an extinct New Zealand bird called the giant moa.
“To me, de-extincting the moa would be just as exciting, if not more exciting, than any film I could possibly make. I’ve made a lot of movies, but to see the giant moa brought back would be a level of excitement that I think would supersede anything at this point in time,” Peter revealed.
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