Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand screenwriter and film director best recognized for his 2001-2003 adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He wrote, produced, and directed the 2005King Kong film. Inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing the 1933King Kong at age 9,[3] he had been planning to create his own adaptation of the film since 1995, but was unable to begin production due in part to the box office failures of other monster films in the mid-to-late '90s. Around the time of his 2005 Kong, he and his team of frequent collaborators at Weta Workshop also began production on a recreation of a cut and allegedly lost pit scene from the 1933 film,[4] which was included as a bonus feature on Blu-ray releases of the 1933 film.
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Trivia
Jackson has an extensive collection of King Kong memorabilia, including the original stop-motion puppets for the Brontosaurus from the first King Kong, and the Styracosaurus from Son of Kong. He also owns the puppet used for the shot of the Brontosaurus' coming out of the water.
The comic adaptation of Jackson's King Kong film was nearly scrapped mid-run by Dark Horse Publishing, but Jackson's intervention saw the remaining two issues see publication as part of a graphic novel.[5]
Notes
↑While Jackson has frequently stated that he was born in Wellington Hospital and raised in Pukerua Bay, Porirua,[1] sources such as the 2005Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor (p. 7) erroneously list Pukerua Bay as his place of birth.[2]
↑Screenwriter with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Producer with Jan Blenkin, Carlynne Cunningham, and Fran Walsh.
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