| The NZ Edge
June 25, 2002
Made in New Zealand: The Cinema of Peter Jackson
Costa Botes
How on (middle?) earth did one of the Twentieth Century's most mythic and popular works of literature, JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, end up being translated into cinema in the largest movie project ever undertaken, by a team helmed by a maverick New Zealand director refusing to budge from his home-made studio at the edge of the planet ... a director previously best known for his DIY Kiwi-schlock horror flicks and an art-house film about teenage matricide? NZEDGE is proud to present a personal and fascinating account of the Peter Jackson story (thus far) by New Zealand filmmaker Costa Botes. Costa co-directed, wrote and produced with Peter the classic NZ mock-umentary Forgotten Silver in 1995. His account of Jackson's journey is a steadfastly idiosyncratic case study of innovation, focus and energy from the edge; "In giving himself something to watch, Peter Jackson has given the rest of us good cause to shake off complacency and start thinking about how to realise a few other 'impossible' goals." Roll on ...
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