In a way that’s true - Peter Jackson has signed up to direct the hit Microsoft videogame HALO - with MS getting 10% of all sales. I can’t imagine BillG and PeterJ going on press tours promoting the movie - it would be a riot! While I was expecting a more human drama from him to see how he fares when his ‘CGI-wand’ is taken away, but he has taken up another monster movie. I wonder what happened to his movie based on Alice Seybold’s superb debut novel ‘Lovely Bones’.

Traditionally movies based on Video games have not set the box office on fire (Lara Croft, Resident Evil etc), but this movie is being penned by Alex Garland, whose ‘28 Days Later’ is one of my fav movies. He also wrote Di Carpio’s hallucinated holiday movie The Beach. PJ reminds me of Indian Director Shankar, who always tries to do something big thereby showing grandeur but losing the critical human connection eventually coming out as dressed up movie with no substance. I sure hope PJ doesnt turn out to be just a vf/x wizard.

BTW the progress of his current project ‘King Kong’ can be tracked via his blog