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After more than a decade away from feature film-making, Peter Jackson sounds ready to get back into action.

Speaking via Zoom with longtime collaborator Richard Taylor for a retrospective story commemorating the 30th anniversary of his first Hollywood film, The Frighteners, Jackson indicated that his next project as director will be the long-awaited follow-up to Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.

"Fran and I have been writing a script for the next Tintin film because 15 years ago, Steven Spielberg directed a Tintin film and I produced it," Jackson exclusively tells Gold Derby. "The idea was that then I was supposed to go straight onto a second one, and we'd swap the roles, so I'd direct the second one and he'd produce it. It's just taken 15 years to get there, unfortunately, a bit late. But it's a timeless story. So we just wrapped up. So probably the next film that I'd actually direct is a Tintin movie."

Legendary Lord of the Rings director confirms next film after 12-year hiatus

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Peter Jackson has announced he will return to directing with a sequel to 2011’s The Adventures of Tintin.

The New Zealand-born filmmaker, 64, is best known for helming the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy that was released between 2001 and 2003.

He has not directed a feature film since his Hobbit trilogy, which was released between 2012 and 2014. He has since worked on documentaries such as his 2018 World War II film They Shall Not Grow Old and the 2021 Beatles archival film Get Back.

Peter Jackson’s Next Is The “Tintin” Sequel

Filmmaker Peter Jackson has confirmed to Gold Derby that the “The Adventures of Tintin” sequel will be his next directorial effort and his first studio film in over a decade (his last was 2014’s “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”).

Speaking with the outlet, he confirmed he and partner Fran Walsh recently wrapped up work on the script after previously teasing he was in the midst of it back in May at Cannes:

“Fran and I have been writing a script for the next Tintin film because 15 years ago, Steven Spielberg directed a Tintin film and I produced it. The idea was that then I was supposed to go straight onto a second one, and we’d swap the roles, so I’d direct the second one and he’d produce it. It’s just taken 15 years to get there, unfortunately, a bit late. But it’s a timeless story. So we just wrapped up. So probably the next film I’ll direct is a Tintin movie.”

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