Peter Jackson has introduced that he’s engaged on a “very completely different” Beatles-related challenge.
In an interview with Deadline, The Lord Of The Rings director revealed that he’s in talks with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to develop a brand new movie. Jackson final labored with the pair on the Emmy-nominated documentary collection The Beatles: Get Again, which was launched in November of final 12 months.
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“I’m speaking to The Beatles about one other challenge, one thing very, very completely different than Get Again,” he stated.
“We’re seeing what the chances are, nevertheless it’s one other challenge with them. It’s not likely a documentary… and that’s all I can actually say… We’re by no means able the place we’ve to do something, however we’ve acquired a couple of issues percolating.”
Whereas Jackson wasn’t capable of share too many particulars, he did counsel that his imaginative and prescient for the challenge would require expertise to enhance.
“It’s so technically sophisticated I’m attempting to work how precisely I’ll do it,” he stated. “It’s a live-action film, nevertheless it wants expertise that doesn’t fairly exist in the intervening time, so we’re in the course of creating the expertise to permit it to occur.
“I’m attempting to anticipate what I’d have the ability to do, earlier than it even exists. They’re not fantasy epics, however they’re fairly attention-grabbing.”
Launched in three components, The Beatles: Get Again featured digitally restored footage of the band from 1969, as they labored in opposition to a good deadline to file 14 new songs. This might develop into their remaining studio album, ‘Let It Be’.
On piecing the collection collectively, Jackson defined: “In a means, my concept of heaven is to take footage from another person, and Michael Lindsay-Hogg shot superb footage.
“It wasn’t as intense as making three Lord of the Rings again to again, nevertheless it was 4 years with a pandemic in the course of all of it.”
In November final 12 months, Jackson defended Get Back‘s lengthy runtime, suggesting it could have taken “one other 50 years” to uncover something he didn’t embrace within the movie.
