After completing The Hobbit trilogy, Peter Jackson maligns the fact that the movie industry "has kind of lost its way".
It seems you can't be a successful talent in front of or behind the camera in the land of modern movies without being asked if you're joining the Marvel cinematic universe. The latest to get such a question? That'd be Mr Peter Jackson, fresh off the back of making his final Middle Earth movie, The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies.
Jackson was chatting to Moviefone, and admitted that "I don't really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now."
He argued that "the industry - and the advent of all the technology - has kind of lost its way. It's become very franchise-driven and superhero-driven."
Jackson has been a technical pioneer in cinema too, so it's interesting to hear him say that. Not least because there's an argument that the CG work in The Hobbit films didn't seem to integrate as convincingly as it did in the Lord Of The Ringstrilogy. Not everyone takes that point of view though, of course.
Still, Jackson adds that "I've never read a comic book in my life, so I'm immediately at a disadvantage and I have no interest in that. So now it's time for us to step back. We're heading towards something of that scale," adding that as he doesn't want to do a Marvel movie, "I've got to go and make a small New Zealand movie."
Now that sounds a far better plan.
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