Peter Jackson was born on 31 October 1961 from English parents who emigrated to ‘dear’ New Zealand, a country that has played an important part in most of his films. Jackson was very much into Sci-Fi movies and started creating his own vampire films in his childhood. His first and particularly gory film Bad Taste helped him to gain recognition from professionals at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival as well as funding for his following creations. It was during the post-production on Bad Taste that Peter Jackson met Fran Walsh, the woman who would later become his wife and the mother of his two children. Jackson’s next film, Meet the Feebles (1989), is a Muppet Show parody starring a frog addicted to drugs.
In 1992, Jackson achieved a wider renown with his horror comedy Braindead. The eclectic director and producer also dealt with a real-life subject in Heavenly Creatures. This drama is based on a real murder performed by two girls on one of the girls’ mother which happened in 1954 in New Zealand. In 1995, Jackson released Forgotten Silver, a false documentary on an imaginary director that was screened on New Zealand television. The truth about this spoof was only revealed the following day. His 1996 film The Frighteners (starring Michael J. Fox) was not really a box office success but it allowed him to work in Hollywood.
In 2001, his many years of hard, non lucrative work were finally rewarded when he was asked to direct the Lord of the Rings trilogy. His adaptations of Tolkien's epic novels met with public as well as critical acclaim, and The Return of the King (part 2 of the trilogy) was obtained 11 Oscars. However, due to an ongoing legal dispute with New Line Cinema (the American society that owns the rights on the Lord of the Rings franchise), the film adaptation of The Hobbit, a prequel to The Lord of the Rings , will not be directed by Peter Jackson. Since 2005, Peter Jackson is also famous for his remake of the 1933 film King Kong.
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interesting one! though I must say that "The Return of the King" is the 3rd (and final :)) part of the trilogy, "The Two Towers" being the second, unless i misunderstood your sentence and what you meant...
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