Peter Jackson Isn’t Ruling Out More Tolkien Movies
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit director Peter Jackson says he’d “probably” be up for another journey into J.R.R. Tolkien‘s world. Jackson who has now spent six films and most of the past 15 years in Middle-earth, but he’s still not ruling out another return.
Jackson hasn’t confirmed any concrete plans to make more Tolkien films, but he definitely sounded open to the idea in a Variety profile:
If I had to start tomorrow, I would say no, because I definitely would appreciate a break to clear my head and get my little New Zealand stories done, which is where my passion and my heart is heading now. But ask me in two or three years, and I’d probably say yes. It would be hard to see another filmmaker go into this world, because I certainly have an emotional ownership of it.
Anyway, with more Middle-earth movies out of Jackson’s reach for the time being, he’s planning to scale down for a low-budget project about his native New Zealand. Jackson is currently adapting several true stories with his longtime partner Fran Walsh, and says they’ll be similar in tone to his 1994 film Heavenly Creatures.
That’s a big change of pace for Jackson, but one it sounds like he could use. “We really feel a bigger urge now to not continue with another Hollywood blockbuster for a while, but to go back and tell some New Zealand stories,” he said.