Talk:Peter Jackson

message: Allright, throughout the entire article Fran Walsh is adressed as Peter Jackson's "partner". I looked her up, and it said she was married to him, but the term "Partner" instead of "wife" makes me thing that Jackson is gay, and Fran Walsh is his male lover... Anyways, I just think that someone should specify exactly who Fran Walsh is in relation to Peter Jackson (I'm not going to because I don't know if their still married, when they got married, if they got divorced etc.). DurotarLord (talk) 00:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While this is an old observation, it's quite conventional for heterosexual unmarried (and they're not married) couples to refer to each other - particularly in NZ - as "partners". Two more points: does it really matter what gender Jackson's partner is; their having (non-adopted) kids makes it fairly obvious.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.52.113 (talk) 11:04, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If that's true, then the usage on Fran Walsh' page is contradictory and one of the two needs to be corrected.  White Whirlwind  咨  12:14, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A November 30, 2012 New York Times articles quotes Walsh explicitly saying they're not married. I clarified. —Alex (ASHill | talk | contribs) 11:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Someone needs to explain who Fran is

message: The biography implies that the only important thing he has ever done is Lord of the Rings... while obviously the trilogy was his most important project, many people think Heavenly Creatures is a better film, and his early horror movies have a big cult following. A better chronology might be:
*Early life (childhood etc)
*Low budget films (Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Braindead)
*Heavenly Creatures
*Breaking into Hollywood (The Frighteners, general career stuff)
*LoTR
*King Kong
*What he's up to now.
A section on influences might be good as well, or this could be incorporated into the early life section.
--Helenalex 05:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like Helenalex's organisation and titling; it certainly makes much more sense. Ziggurat 00:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd just like to point out, LOTR is the only important film Peter Jackson has done. Think about it, he's made many cult classics, but honestly, how much money do cult classics make? How popular do they make someone? LOTR is what propelled him into superstardom, and was his first major achievement. As for King Kong, it was another popular film, but it didn't actually do anything to him like LOTR did. DurotarLord (talk) 00:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much focus on LOTR 

message: What is 'The Valley' that's listed in the filmography? It's not on IMDB, it doesn't have a Wiki page, and I've never heard of it. If it was an unreleased home-made movie (and from the date it surely has to be) it shouldn't be on the list. --Helenalex 04:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can see the movie and some information on http://tbhl.theonering.net/peter/film_valley.html . It is not a home made movie, but anyway it is a short movie, so not very important. Cate | Talk 11:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Um... this links to a page on Valley of the Stereos, made in 1992 and only co-produced by Peter Jackson. Is this what you meant to link to? --Helenalex 11:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ooops. ok.  It is an other movie: (see the top of http://tbhl.theonering.net/badtaste/makingof.html), so I will delete the link from the list, is it OK?.  Eventually we could list in "early life", with the title of the other early projects. Cate | Talk 13:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, "The Valley" IS listed on IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314831/ 81.190.36.200 21:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a reference in 'early life' would be most appropriate. The filmography should be limited to things which had a cinematic, video or dvd release. Being entered in a short film contest doesn't really count. --Helenalex 00:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I also saw Valley fo the Stereos in a theatre. It was shown in the Wellington Film Festival in 1993 at the Embassy Theatre, as a short before David Cronenberg's feature film Naked Lunch. It's also been released on DVD, on the compilation "Dark Stories, Vol. 2: Tales from Beneath". Amazon.com link:  Pearce.duncan 00:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Valley 

message: I just noticed a revision where "favourite" was changed to "favorite".  I am sure the editor was well-meaning, changing it to the national variety that he or she is used to.  (I primarily use American spelling conventions myself).  The  Wikipedia manual of style, however, suggests that an article about a New Zealander should use New Zealand spellings.  Moreover, spelling should be consistent across the article and I noticed that most words were written according to NZ/UK conventions.  I have thus reverted that edit, and tried to normalize other inconsistencies.  (As I said, however, American English is my native tongue, so I may have missed some.) --Taranah 00:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You have. Your "normalize" is not NZ. Try "normalise". ;) Wallie (talk) 16:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zealand spelling 

message: The topic written has somewhat of a biased view towards Peter Jackson. It brings up numerous positive points and gloats about his success, while never addressing his numerous criticisms. 142.41.215.138 05:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased view 

message: Peter Jackson has lost quite a bit of weight since the featured picture of him has been taken. Someone should upload a new one! Thomas M 06:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Get a new picture! 

message: I noticed that someone had misused a quote from the Extended Edition DVDs. A person had said something to this effect under the Style heading for Peter Jackson's article: "...general playfulness to the point where the Lord of the Rings miniatures director Alex Funke said 'the film is almost incidental really'."
I have taken the liberty to correct this to "Alan Lee" who was the one who said this.  Please make sure of your sources and who is making a quote (especially from DVDs) when adding such things to articles.
Aj045 02:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correctly Quote and Credit, Please 

message: What's the source for this? I've never read about it in print, and the only other reference I can find online are sourced from Wikipedia. Elijah Wood is supposed to be starring as Iggy in a bio-pic directed by Nick Gomez. Pearce.duncan 00:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iggy Pop bio-pic 

message: Who the heck changed this page so that it just redirected to the Return of the King movie? I've reverted it. Was that vandalism, or just idiocy? Pearce.duncan 03:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect to Return of the King page 

message: A lot of this was conjecture, at the very least unsubstantiated facts. Aside from a lack of verifiable sources, the section read more like a PR piece about Jackson's style. But by inference -- there are no objective sources to attribute any particular style to Jackson. Moreover, techniques such as "coverage" and wide-angle shots, and demanding that f/x are "seamless and invisible" are hardly stylistic, but rather common principles of filmmaking. Have there been any published analyses of Jackson's filmmaking style, or is this (as I suspect) a bit of puffery written by fanboys with a smidgen of film knowledge? Alcarillo 19:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style 

message: Near-breaking news, but Jackson is expected to produce 2 films based off Tolkien's "The Hobbit".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sten28 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Hobbit 

message: Can we get a new picture of him since he's lost weight? He's lost a lot of pounds since LOTR, and he's practically unrecognizable now in comparison to what he used to look like, so a newer picture would be nice. DurotarLord (talk) 00:46, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:FU. It'll be difficult to get a free image just to show what he's looked like since 2005. Alientraveller (talk) 10:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You actually need a new picture, as it's a pretty inaccurate portrayal of him now 222.152.85.125 (talk) 01:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wait until October 2009, let's see if anyone will make a non-copyrighted image of him at the premieres of The Lovely Bones. Alientraveller (talk) 09:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

text: Wow I had no idea Peter Jackson looked like that. I thought some smarty-pants decided it would be funny to change his picture until I saw his picture on IMDB.72.85.193.28 (talk) 23:08, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Pic? 

message: This might be better 'chronicled' under a separate heading, as it is mentioned twice in two difference paragraphs under the upcoming features header. That section is untidy and could be cleaned up - surely some of the projects mentioned warrant their own headers?Full Chrome Logic (talk) 01:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halo Chronicles 

message: Could someone do this please?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.3.199 (talk) 21:11, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direct Sir Peter Jackson here. 

message: Hello everyone, 
I would love to tell everyone out there that the ideas that Peter Jackson has in mind is far beyond the contemporary movie circles. I grew up a young boy having started watching action movies and never felt much love though for it; I remember my first movie watched was Rambo First Blood, I was about four or five years old. The hit song, a song played on screen prior to the movie was by Phil Collins 'Everyday', I loved it a lot better.
However, with the experience I started in Legendary, Adventure, and real-like fictions in the movies while I was twelve from Conan the destroyer, Hex man to Lord of the rings has changed me entirely. And I really want to write a movie script "The Mentor" about what many directors, producers and actors have taught me in movies, I just believe that if I could get someone like Sir Peter Jackson to teach me write better movie scripts I will be perfect and give all I could in life for movie worlds. I need someone to show me a better way through. 
Thank you everyone.
Dan Brian Amagi --196.0.7.130 (talk) 07:28, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Innovative in creative thinking is important in new movie makers, too 

message: In the Hollywood, Weta, and the Film Commission section, could someone verify the New Zealand listener legal issues. I couldn't find anything about it in the biography and all the google searches lead to this article or other wikia sites.
-ProudHuman42 (talk) 22:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hollywood, Weta, and the Film Commission -- Peter Jackson legal issues 

message: You know like the other articles are. The section should be better worded also. PJ wasn't knighted as such, he was given an knighthood honour that allows the use of Sir. Cj105 (talk) 21:12, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Peter Jackson received the Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2009 New Year's Honours list and was knighted by the Governor-General, Anand Satyanand, in March 2010.User talk:Moriori (talk) 00:18, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Honours should still be moved to closer to the end like the norm for articles involving people with honours.Cj105 (talk) 16:30, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honours should be listed at the end of the article

message: The refrence says 13 kilograms, but the text in the article section says "over 50 pounds (23 kg)"
Any other sources?
Løbner (talk) 10:43, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual weightloss? 

message: Had an idea of writing a personal life section? Putting stuff about weight loss, health issues, Fran and Kids in there? What do people think? Good idea, bad idea? Let me know please :) 86.29.28.91 (talk)
:Make sure you have reliable sources for everything you add, and use inline references. Don't include material which breaches the privacy of third parties - eg kids names and their schools are unlikely to be appropriate.-gadfium 22:59, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Life? 

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message: The Beatles documentary paragraph is in the past tense, indicating that it was written before the movie came out. It has already been released and therefore there should be an update to this part.Gandalf 1892 (talk) 21:21, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs update