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Peter Jackson: Career
Jackson started his career in film as a fanatical hobbyist, creating small movies with simple technical means and with the help of a couple of friends. When one of his projects, the horror comedy Bad Taste, over a period of four years grew from the originally planned half-hour to a 90-minute feature film, Jackson and his crew took the end result to the film festival in Cannes, received critical acclaim and sold the rights to twelve countries. This allowed him to start a professional career as a film director.
Unlike some other New Zealand film directors, Jackson has remained in New Zealand to make films, preferring to have Hollywood come to him, rather than going to Hollywood to make his films. In the process he has set up or acquired a number of local businesses in order to support film production in New Zealand. He was an early user of computer enhancement technology and provided digital special effects to a number of Hollywood films by use of telecommunications and satellite links to transmit raw images and the enhanced results across the Pacific Ocean, making good use of time differences between New Zealand and North America.
Although appearing casual and relaxed, inevitably dressing in his trademark baggy shorts and without shoes, Jackson is a perfectionist with his film projects. He demands countless takes of every scene, pushes his special-effects crew to make their work seamless and invisible, and insists in authenticity in miniatures even on the sides that never appear in a film. On the other hand, many of his most beautiful scenes result from purely serendipitous shots taken while flying from one location to another. Despite this perfectionism, he has a reputation for needing significantly less budget than his peers to achieve spectacular results.
Universal Studios signed Peter Jackson -- for a reported US$20 million upfront-fee plus 20% take of the total box-office gross -- for his next film, a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong — the film that inspired him, aged 8-years-old, to become a film director. As of 2004, that would make him the highest-paid motion picture director in history. The film has a scheduled release date during the Christmas season of 2005, and has a reported cast of Oscar-nominated actress
Naomi Watts, Oscar-winning actor
Adrien Brody,
Jack Black, Colin Hanks and
Andy Serkis.
Much speculation has occurred as to whether Jackson might direct a film of The Hobbit
, prequel to The Lord of the Rings. His comments to date seem to indicate that he is interested, if the studios can work out the rights - in the late 2004 it appears unlikely, as MGM (the studio, which holds the rights to The Hobbit) was sold to Sony in the race between Warner Brothers in the late 2004.
Jackson won three Academy Awards for ':* Academy Award for Directing* Academy Award for Best Picture* Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
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