{"id":34224,"date":"2009-11-08T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=34224"},"modified":"2009-11-08T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:14:57","slug":"producers-of-the-year-the-jackson-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/11\/08\/34224-producers-of-the-year-the-jackson-hive\/","title":{"rendered":"Producers of the Year: The Jackson Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/113153-jackson_posse_490-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fran Walsh, left, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham\" title=\"Fran Walsh, left, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-34225 no-lazyload\" \/>Five years ago, while Peter Jackson was immersed in directing his large-scale remake of &#8220;King Kong&#8221; for Universal, executive Mary Parent mentioned a project the studio was developing based on the wildly popular video game &#8220;Halo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was intrigued. He loved to play &#8220;Halo&#8221; with his two teenage children; his special effects company, New Zealand-based WETA, seemed perfect to handle the FX; and a 15% tax rebate made a Kiwi shoot ideal for Universal and co-financier Fox. So Jackson agreed to produce, alongside his lifetime partner Fran Walsh and their colleague Carolynne Cunningham. Jackson would not direct, but he would find a promising young helmer to work under his supervision. When Parent suggested Neill Blomkamp, based on a short film of his she&#8217;d seen, the South Africa-born filmmaker left his home in Vancouver and flew to meet the Jackson team. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i8875589fada415ac073dd3a1bb55a06a\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, while Peter Jackson was immersed in directing his large-scale remake of &#8220;King Kong&#8221; for Universal,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,74,167],"tags":[1004,1005],"class_list":["post-34224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walsh","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films","tag-carolynne-cunningham","tag-hollywood-reporter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8U0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}