The news broke this morning that Peter Jackson has gotten the rights to Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" series, and over the weekend AICN conducted a lengthy exclusive interview with Peter Jackson in which the film came up. Here's what the "Lord of the Rings" director had to say:
When will he get to work on these? "I'm not sure. I mean, I love the books and it may well be that I'm going to shoot them. I don't know. I'm just going to see... 'Lovely Bones' has been occupying our minds for the last few months, we haven't really dared to delve too much into 'Temeraire'. We've only recently completed the work to secure the rights to these, anyway, so we haven't allowed ourselves to get too excited yet until it was all done".
So what is the plan? "The thing we'll do is we'll develop the screenplays on spec and then we'll design it. Which is really the first thing I want to do, is have Weta do a design pass of the characters and the world. Get Gus (Hanson) and those guys to have a go at it, which we'll do at some point when the 'HALO' stuff is mainly done. So, we'll start with that and once 'The Lovely Bones' gets all tied up and in good shape we'll start to think about this series".
How many films can expect "I don't really know yet how we'll structure it, because obviously it's more than one film, for sure... we've optioned all Temeraire books, including future ones".
For the full interview with lots more details, click here.
