Peter Jackson Is Working on Three Screenplays: ‘I’m Certainly Not Retired’

It’s been 11 years since Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson completed his “Hobbit” trilogy. He has not directed a communicative characteristic since, though he surely has not been stagnant.

He did, however, nonstop the Beatles’ docuseries “Get Back” and nan 3D WWI doc “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which colorized and restored wartime footage. He besides wrote and produced “Mortal Engines” successful 2018, and he was listed arsenic an executive shaper connected the anime “The Lord of nan Rings: The War of nan Rohirrim” successful 2024. But since he completed his past ode to J. R. R. Tolkien, he has not led a film set. Jackson, though, insists that he is not retired of nan game.

“No, no. I’m surely not retired,” Jackson told ScreenRant successful an interview. “We are presently moving connected 3 different screenplays. I’m astatine nan infinitesimal penning 3 different scripts.”

The “District 9” head teased that much will beryllium coming from some his “Lord of nan Rings” beingness and Beatles retrospectives.

“We are producing and person been penning ‘The Hunt for Gollum,’ which Andy Serkis is going to direct adjacent year,” he said. “I’ve enjoyed moving connected documentaries, whether they show I’ve grown aged aliases not, and evidently nan ‘Get Back: The Beatles’ project. I’ve enjoyed doing various things pinch The Beatles, which is great, and that’ll astir apt transportation on.”

What he mightiness really direct, he did not say. But what Jackson is astir excited about, he revealed, involves pulling a real-life “Jurassic Park” pinch a ample prehistoric bird.

“But to me, de-extincting nan Moa would beryllium conscionable arsenic exciting, if not much exciting, than immoderate movie I could perchance make. I’ve made a batch of movies, but to spot nan Giant Moa brought backmost would beryllium a level of excitement that I deliberation would supersede thing astatine this constituent successful time,” he explained.

Jackson is speaking of nan biotech institution Colossal Biosciences, of which he is simply a awesome investor. The company, according to its website, is “the world’s first and only de-extinction company,” and goes connected to constitute that “Colossal is person to restoring nan past, preserving nan coming and safeguarding nan early than anyone before. To genuinely exemplify our success, we must not only redefine de-extinction, but found standards for nan subject down it, arsenic well.”

Last year, Colossal was capable to usage fossil DNA to bring 2 dire wolves backmost from extinction aft 10,000 years. No, really: here’s nan Time screen story.