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Peter Jackson Wiki Biography

Sir Peter Robert Jackson, commonly known as Peter Jackson, is a famous New Zealand screenwriter, as well as a film director and producer. To the public, Peter Jackson is perhaps best known for his work on “The Lord of the Rings” film adaptations of J. R. R. R. Tolkien’s novels. Considered to be among the highest-grossing trilogies, “The Lord of the Rings” managed to gross more than $2.9 billion in the box office worldwide, and succeeded at winning 17 Academy Awards. With Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler and Viggo Mortensen in the main roles, “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy inspired the release of several video games, as well as its prequel trilogy known as “The Hobbit” film series. The first film in the series came out in 2012 under the title of “An Unexpected Journey”, followed by “The Desolation of Smaug” and “The Battle of Five Armies”, which was released in December in 2014. Aside from the two trilogies, Peter Jackson is known for “The Lovely Bones” with Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz, “Heavenly Creatures” with Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, and “The Adventures of Tintin”. In addition to many awards, Peter Jackson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014.

A well-known director and producer, how rich is Peter Jackson? According to sources, Peter Jackson’s net worth is estimated to be $400 million, most of which he has accumulated from his involvement in the film industry.

Peter Jackson was born in 1961, in New Zealand. When he was a teenager, Jackson was largely inspired by he sketch comedy series called “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, as well as the animated series of “The Lord of the Rings”, based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels. Consequently, Jackson purchased all the necessary equipment, and started shooting his own films. One of his very first movies was a sci-fi comedy film entitled “Bad Taste”, which was met with generally positive reviews and soon received a cult following. Following the success of his debut film, Jackson briefly focused on screenwriting, but in 1989 he returned to directing with his second film “Meet the Feebles”, starring Mark Hadlow.

Jackson rose to prominence several years later, in 1994, when he directed the drama film called “Heavenly Creatures”. Just as with Jackson’s debut work, the film received a lot of critical praise, and was even featured in many top 10 lists. As a result of this, Jackson caught the attention of the entertainment company “Miramax” founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, both of whom contributed to Jackson’s overall popularity at the time. Over the years, Peter Jackson has become one of the best film directors in the industry.

In regards to his personal life, Peter Jackson married the screenwriter and film producer Fran Walsh in 1987, and they have been together ever since. Walsh worked with Jackson on such films as “Meet the Feebles”, as well as “The Lord of the Rings” film series. Together, they have two children, namely Katie and Billy.

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Peter Jackson Trademarks

1. Enormous visual scope with emphasis on landscape
2. Darkly humorous scenes of violence
3. More often than not sports a beard
4. Often films close-ups using wide angles
5. Well known on-set for insisting on lots of coverage (filming the scene from many different angles), his attention to detail, and being a bit of a perfectionist, especially on the “Lord of the Rings” films, where he would spend days shooting a single scene.
6. Frequently casts Andy Serkis and Jed Brophy
7. Frequently wears shorts, even in freezing cold weather
8. Has an interest in matricide (Derek is “born-again” in the ending of Bad Taste (1987), Sidney kills his wife and mother of his son in Meet the Feebles (1989), Lionel Cosgrove kills his mother in Braindead (1992), Pauline Rieper kills her mother in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and Patricia Ann Bradley kills her mother in The Frighteners (1996).
9. In his movies, frequently there are axes: the Whitey Alien’s axe in Bad Taste (1987), the explorers’ axe in Braindead (1992), the Diello’s axe in Heavenly Creatures (1994), the executioner’s axe in Forgotten Silver (1995), the Reaper’s axe in The Frighteners (1996), and Gimli’s axe in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
10. In his movies, there’s frequently a fake documentary: the Christ church footage in Heavenly Creatures (1994), The Murders & Psychos documentary in The Frighteners (1996), the Colin McKenzie biographical film in Forgotten Silver (1995) and _Lord of the Piercing (2002)_ (on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Region 1 extended edition DVD).
11. Always writes his scripts with his real-life partner Fran Walsh
12. Likes to make cameo appearances in his movies: the morgue assistant in Braindead (1992), the homeless man in Heavenly Creatures (1994), the dude in The Frighteners (1996), the drunk in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), the guy throwing a spear in Helm’s Deep in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and the Corsair Leader in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
13. Frequently set his movies in Wellington, New Zealand
14. His films frequently conclude with a bloodbath, e.g.: the lawnmower with the zombies in Braindead (1992), and the murder of Honora Parker in Heavenly Creatures (1994).

Peter Jackson Quotes

• [on filming the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasies] I am a lifelong Buster Keaton fan. I am not saying I am approaching his genius, but we are able to make things exciting and provide bits of visual humour as we do.
• The way I look on something like Tintin, as a period movie set in the ’40s or ’50s, really to a kid that’s no different to a science fiction or fantasy film. If kids can watch something set on another planet or a fantasy film in some middle-age landscape, in its own way Tintin has a fantastical aspect to it – it’s a world that doesn’t exist today, it’s a world that’s outside of your experience. Escapism is all about that, taking that journey to places that are exotic and romantic. And Tintin is fantastic escapism, it has been for 75 years now.
• The weird thing about being a director of films that have a certain popularity and a following is that you are forced to have to deal with things that you have no interest in but they become part of your life. Like you have to deal with increased security. You have to deal with privacy issues. A lot of things that really don’t have anything to do with filmmaking. You have to have a team around you, assistants, and people that look after you. I never imagined that sort of filmmaking when I was young. I never thought I’d find myself in this place. There’s the actual craft of directing and then there’s this other baggage that comes the more successful you are as a director. Your craft is still there but all this other stuff kind of starts to build up around you.
• I’ve always been completely into genre directors: Stuart Gordon, George Romero, Sam Raimi. I like [Stanley] Kubrick – not that I could ever make a film like him. On The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), where we had an 18-month shoot, I got so exhausted and when that happens your brain stops sparking and your imagination stops fizzing the way you’d like it to. I got to a point where, on my day off, I’d put on a DVD of Goodfellas (1990) or Casino (1995) and say, “Okay, I know what I’ve got to try and do now.” I couldn’t do it as good as [Martin] Scorsese, but it inspired and reenergized me, telling me what my job is: to come up with interesting ways to shoot scenes, interesting camera moves, and interesting ways to show the performance. I used to do that as a therapeutic thing when I was in a state of exhaustion.
• When I drive to the studio, I usually feel nervous, and the day seems daunting. 100 people are about to look to me to find out what our first shot is, what lens I want to use, and how many set-ups it’s going to take to get the scene finished. Some of the time I have a plan, and some of the time I wing it. It helps to rehearse with the actors, and the ideas, hopefully good ones, start flowing. It’s always better once we break the ice and start shooting.
• [on The Lovely Bones (2009)] – It’s a film about how love never really dies and how time heals.
• [on The Lovely Bones (2009)] – It’s not a murder film and I wanted kids to be able to go and see it. Film is such a powerful medium. It’s like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. There are some people who might enjoy watching a 14-year-old girl getting killed, a small minority maybe, but how could you live with yourself in providing that titillation? I wouldn’t want the movie defined by that.
• [on his earlier and more controversial movies] – I call them splat-stick. To me, they were a joke. We enjoyed being crazy and anarchic and upsetting the people we wanted to upset in those days. But, big puppets having sex? It’s harmless, surely. The Saw movies, well… I don’t want to be casting moral judgments, but I don’t like those films.
• There’s one area of directing that I’d love to improve upon. I tend to get involved in big movies that take two or three years of your life and I see what Clint Eastwood does and what Ridley Scott does, and they’re able to do those films and also mix it up with these in-n-out, seven- or eight-month films. I think that’s a real skill and talent. I’d love to learn how to do that. So not everything took three years for one project. I’d love to reinvent the way I work, to some degree.
• I think that’s one of the most depressing things about the film industry generally today. The writers and directors should be blamed just as much as the studios because really everything seems to be a remake or adapting a 1970s TV show that was never particularly good. Why anyone thinks that it would be a good feature film now, you know, goodness knows why. I guess it’s easy to say it’s security that you know a studio is only prepared to put $150 million or $200 million into something if it’s a known quantity, but at the same time I’m also aware that audiences are getting fed up with the lack of original ideas and original stories. Everything in the film business tends to be cyclic and hopefully this all drains itself out in a couple years and we’ll be back into original stories again.
• [on the aborted Halo movie] Well, Microsoft has a whole strategy with the Halo property, and when the rights expired with the two studios, that sort of ended my involvement with the project. That fell apart because of internal politics at Fox and Universal. It had nothing to do with the budget or anything else. In fact, we hadn’t even been greenlit at all at that point.
• Regarding his spat with New Line: We have a great many friends at New Line and utmost respect for the risk they took with us and it hurts to be hit with the level of venom directed at us from individuals in that company. It’s been a lot more nasty behind the scenes than what’s been made public. It’s just an accounting dispute at the end of the day, but it makes you wonder what they have to hide.
• No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong. I’m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. It has been my sustained dream to reinterpret this classic story for a new age.
• I don’t quite know what an auteur is. I’ve never quite understood that term, because filmmaking is such a huge team effort, you – I mean, I regard myself as being sort of the final filter, so everything that ends up in the movie is there, because it’s something that I’d think was cool if I saw the film that somebody else had made. I’m very much trying to make the film that I’ve enjoyed, but I’m open to ideas, I need a huge team of people to help me, everybody contributes and I try to encourage people to contribute as much as possible. I think that’s the job of a director really, is to sort of funnel all the creative into one centralized point of view. And the marketing is sort of something that really happens with other people, it’s not something that I’m at all an expert in, and I regard my job at the end of the day as to make the best possible film I can, and that’s really where my job stops and marketing people take over after that.
• (on the remake of King Kong (1976)): I was 15 when that film came out. I took the day off school, went into Wellington and was first in line to see it. It was a disappointment because I wanted it to have stop-motion animation, dinosaurs and the Empire State Building. I didn’t like the updating of it, and it has dated very badly. I watched it again a year or so ago. I thought Jeff Bridges was excellent, John Barry’s score was very good, and Rick Baker did a sterling job in that very heavy monkey suit he was wearing. But it was kind of kitsch and it wasn’t the Kong that I saw when I was nine.
• Don’t worry. Gollum isn’t going to be another Jar Jar Binks.
• The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. The worst type is dictated by demographics or what is hip or what kids are into. Kong isn’t driven by that. No way would a studio think this is the year that people want to see a big gorilla movie. I’ve come to realize that, as much as anything, I am making this for the 9-year-old Peter.
• We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren’t going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.
• I always trusted him. If there was a way that I had seen something and he had seen it differently, I would… trust his vision. We were in brilliant hands. — Elijah Wood on filming “The Lord of the Rings”, December 14, 2003.
• To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.
• I think that George Lucas’s Star Wars films are fantastic. What he’s done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. He got ILM started and they developed all the computer technology we use. George Lucas is incredible. He has made a huge difference to the way films are made now. And he has used his money on things that benefit every filmmaker who gets films produced. I respect that a lot.
• On making “The Lord of the Rings”: Looking back, I think we were a bit naive. At the beginning, I don’t think anybody had any idea how difficult or complicated it would be. We somehow went into it thinking we could do it. And then we’ve stumbled along just taking each day at a time.
• Return of the King is the most enjoyable because in the structure of the movies, it is nothing other than pay-off, there is no more setting up to do, no more exposition, no more introducing characters. The pay-off is very character-based. It is action-orientated as well, but all of our characters have been pushed to a point where their life and death depends on what happens in the third movie. It is very emotional, and from an actors point of view it is very enjoyable to work on, because they were able to play some pretty intense drama. From my point of view it was always great, because we were heading toward an ending, a climax which we never had in the other two.
• [on “The Lord of the Rings”]: This is a giant undertaking, but I consider this a personal film. It’s my film of a lifetime. I read the book when I was 18 years old and thought then, “I can’t wait till the movie comes out.” Twenty years later, no one had done it – so I got impatient.
• On horror: I don’t take stuff seriously. I saw Hellraiser III the other day at Cannes; it’s okay, it’s a good film, I didn’t hate it or anything. I thought it was quite good, but it was all just so serious. Some guy walking round with pins sticking out of his face. I just can’t sit there and think, “This is really scary.” If I made a Hellraiser film, I’d like Pinhead to be whacked against a wall and have all the pins flattened into his face. I immediately start thinking of funny things and gags – that’s just the way I am. I doubt I could ever control myself sufficiently to make a serious horror film.
• On Meet the Feebles (1989): I have a moronic sense of humour.
• What I don’t like are pompous, pretentious movies.
• New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

Peter Jackson Important Facts

• $20,000,000 + 20% of the gross (to be shared with co-writer/producer Fran Walsh & co-writer Philippa Boyens)
• $10,000,000 + gross points (this salary is for all 3 films)
• Owns the rubber and steel-skeletonized triceratops puppet made and used by the animators of the original King Kong (1933), his favorite movie. Before the 2005 release of that film on DVD, Jackson had the model x-rayed at a hospital radiology lab to study the structure of the skeleton inside. The rubber skin on the model, having deteriorated over the decades, was thought to be too fragile to remove completely for a closer examination. The model was then entirely rebuilt from scratch with several other creatures from the film at WETA studios for an authentic stop-motion recreation of the famous lost spider-pit sequence of the 1933 film, which was included in the bonus features of the 2005 DVD version.
• He has made seven films with Cate Blanchett: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). Hot Fuzz (2007) is the only one that he did not direct.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 8, 2014.
• Peter Jackson is the third director (after James Cameron and Christopher Nolan) to have released two films that have grossed $1 billion worldwide during their run. His films were The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).
• In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he cast Ian Holm as Bilbo because he had previously played Frodo in the BBC Radio adaptation, thus allowing Holm to have played the heroes of both of Tolkien’s major works. In the Hobbit trilogy, Benedict Cumberbatch plays both Smaug and the Necromancer, a character later revealed to be Sauron, thus allowing Cumberbatch to have played both major villains.
• Has directed two actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Ian McKellen and Stanley Tucci.
• (January 27, 2011) Recovering in a Wellington, New Zealand hospital after undergoing emergency surgery to repair a perforated ulcer.
• His five favorite films, according to Rotten Tomatoes, are The General (1926) King Kong (1933), Jaws (1975), Goodfellas (1990) and Dawn of the Dead (2004).
• He was awarded Knight Companion of the Order of New Zealand for his services to the film industry in the 2010 Queen’s New Years Honours List.
• To acquaint actors who had not read the books with the story, he used the BBC Radio version of The Lord of the Rings, which starred Ian Holm. He ended up using Holm as Bilbo in the films.
• Ranked #16 on EW’s The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007).
• One of few directors to be offered the chance of writing and directing sequels to many famous horror franchises. He was offered Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) and Child’s Play 3 (1991).
• Is a huge fan of Doctor Who (1963), and has used the screen name Xoanon, taken from the Doctor Who story “The Face of Evil”.
• Ranked #11 on Premiere magazine’s 2006 “Power 50” list. Had ranked #1 in 2005.
• Described the production of the Lord of the Rings trilogy as “laying the tracks down in front of the train” as it was moving forward.
• No longer needs glasses after undergoing eye surgery during the making of King Kong (2005).
• Lost 70 lbs. during the production of King Kong (2005).
• Ranked #7 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Greatest directors ever!” (2005).
• Crowned the most powerful man in Hollywood by ranking #1 on Premiere magazine’s 2005 Power 50 List. It is his first #1 ranking. Had ranked #6 in 2004.
• Is among an elite group of eight directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Orig/Adapted) for the same film. In 2004, he won all three for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). The other directors are Billy Wilder, Leo McCarey, Francis Ford Coppola, James L. Brooks, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen and Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
• Three of his collaborators have had connections to the material being filmed, outside the context of the film being made. Ian Holm, whom he cast as Bilbo in “The Lord of the Rings”, was cast because he had played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation. That adaptation was written by Brian Sibley, who is a cousin of his wife, Fran Walsh. In Heavenly Creatures (1994), Kate Winslet plays Juliet Hulme, who would later be known as real-life mystery novelist Anne Perry. Winslet has a sister, Anna Winslet, who appears as Dora in The Cater Street Hangman (1998), which was based on one of Perry’s novels.
• Along with his wife Fran Walsh, he was one of three husband/wife teams to be nominated for an Oscar for the 2003 season, the others were Michael McKean and his wife, Annette O’Toole and Shari Springer Berman and her husband Robert Pulcini. Jackson and Walsh won Oscars while the other couples walked out of the award with no Oscars.
• Estimated earnings from the Lord of the Rings trilogy come close to $125 million.
• Has been referred to by Fran Walsh as being a hobbit himself, due to his physical stature, his tendency to go barefoot, and the fact that he is swarthy (in Walsh’s words, “furry”).
• The copies of the Lord of the Rings books that he referred to during filming are the ones that he bought after seeing The Lord of the Rings (1978). The books have cover art by Ralph Bakshi.
• Ranked #6 in Premiere magazine’s 2004 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #20 in 2003. He is the second-highest rated director on the list, behind only Steven Spielberg.
• Has worked with three generations of Astins: John Astin (The Frighteners (1996)); John’s son, Sean Astin (the Lord of the Rings trilogy); and Sean’s daughter, Ali Astin (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)).
• The London Daily Mail reported (December 5, 2003) that Jackson was so fond of King Kong (1933) that he once cut up his mother’s old fur coat and used it to make a model of the great ape; also that he consulted with Andy Serkis on the script of his version of the movie.
• Nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (which he won), but not for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
• Son of Bill Jackson and Joan Jackson.
• Met Fran Walsh in 1987, during post-production for the gross-out cult classic Bad Taste (1987).
• Both of his parents died during production of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• Voted “Man of the Year 2002” in the Australian Empire Magazine. [March 2003]
• Ranked #20 in Premiere magazine’s 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #41 in 2002.
• Started writing a remake of King Kong (1933) in 1996, which went through several drafts, until in 2003 he made one that was greenlighted by Universal.
• He allegedly offered $150,000 to Aint-it-cool webmaster Harry Jay Knowles for his King Kong (1933) original poster.
• For his first movie, Bad Taste (1987), he did all the special effects, the make-up effects and built exact replicas of the weapons.
• He left school at age 17 and started working on a Wellington newspaper.
• He and Fran Walsh, were both awarded Companion of the Order of New Zealand Merit on March 5, 2002 for their services to the film industry.
• (November 26, 2001) Together with his partner Fran Walsh, he received the honorary graduation from Massey University.
• The movie that gave him the love for splatter is George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978). After seeing it, he felt a bit sick but amazed too.
• Credits his favorite movie King Kong (1933) as his biggest inspiration in filmmaking. He said that he cried when King Kong fell off the Empire State Building.
• In 1998, he bought the New Zealand based film company National Film Unit.
• The stuff in the bowl, in his first movie Bad Taste (1987), was yoghurt, muesli and green food colouring.
• After his parents, Bill and Joan, died, Jackson inherited the modest Pukerua Bay house where he grew up.
• He likes 1960s music his favorites are The Beatles (he paid homage to them in Bad Taste (1987)).
• During filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), he used the same pair of shoes and only two T-shirts.
• Collects models of airplanes from World War One.
• Father of Billy Jackson and Katie Jackson.
• Owner of production companies WingNut Films, Weta Limited and Three Foot Six.
• Made the latex models for Bad Taste (1987) in his mom’s kitchen oven, often forcing the family to have sausages for dinner because they couldn’t use the oven.
• Owns two houses in Wellington, New Zealand.

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