Peter Jackson hat in einem Interview mit dem Hollywood Reporter jede Menge Details zur kommenden 4K-Restauration seines Frühwerks bekanntgegeben. Für seine Weltkriegs-Doku They Shall Not Grow Old entwickelte er einige neuartige Techniken in seiner FX-Bude Weta, die er nun auf seine ersten vier Filme (Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Braindead, Heavenly Creatures) anwenden möchte. Die sollen dann in einem hübschen Boxset veröffentlicht werden inklusive jeder Menge bisher unveröffentlichtem Behind-The-Scenes-Material (er hat Videotagebücher von den Dreharbeiten zu allen Filmen, alleine 2 Stunden vom Set von Bad Taste, 8 Stunden von Meet The Feebles und 70 Stunden von Braindead).
Und als wäre das alles noch nicht großartig genug für jeden Splatterhead: Er kann sich vorstellen, auf seine alten Tage nochmal so richtig ekelhaft zu werden und einen fiesen Horrorfilm abzuliefern. Exakt das wünsche ich mir von ihm seit Lord of the Rings. Einen absurd blutigen Back-To-The-Roots-Jackson. Mich macht dieses Interview sehr glücklich.
«I’ve decided to go back and do this to my old films — the first four I made, which I own but never rereleased,» Jackson tells THR. «I’ve done some tests on Braindead [his third film, from 1992, also known as Dead Alive and now widely regarded as a classic of the zombie genre], where we took the 16mm negative and put it through our World War I restoration pipeline — and shit, it looks fantastic!» […]
In addition to using his new restoration pipeline to upgrade the films into immaculate 4K, Jackson also plans to retool the audio, giving fans the opportunity to savor every fleshy squelch, bone crunch or blood splatter in high definition sound. «The mixes on those films were pretty much all stereo in those days, so we’re going to get the old soundtracks out and do a 5.1 mix,» he says.
While making Meet the Feebles, Jackson and his crew (most of whom were, again, his friends) followed just one creative guideline: «Our only philosophy was that we were going to be as disgusting as we possibly could,» he says. «And we didn’t have any studio types on set or reading with us, because there was no script to read, really — we were just writing it as we went along.»
Could a self-produced, mature-phase Peter Jackson splatter flick someday be in store — with all of his Hollywood-enhanced resources brought to bear?
«Oh, I’m very happy to be disgusting again if the right project comes along,» he says, gleefully. «It would be interesting to see how disgusting Fran and I could be in our older age compared to our younger years because we’ve learned a few things since then. We know a little bit more about the world than we did then, so maybe our levels of disgusting could go into whole new places!»

«Dravens Tales from the Crypt» bezaubert seit über 15 Jahren mit einer geschmacklosen Mischung aus Humor, seriösem Journalismus – aus aktuellem Anlass und unausgewogener Berichterstattung der Presse Politik – und Zombies, garniert mit jeder Menge Kunst, Entertainment und Punkrock. Draven hat aus seinem Hobby eine beliebte Marke gemacht, welche sich nicht einordnen lässt.







