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Jackson grew up in enchanting Pukerua Bay, a coastal town near New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington. He developed a love of films as a child, and was inspired by the adventures he would have in and around his home, which he called an “adventure playground”.
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Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), both of which are adapted from the …
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Dec 21, 2024 · Peter Jackson (born October 31, 1961, Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand) is a New Zealand director, perhaps best known for his film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Pukerua Bay - Wikipedia
Pukerua Bay is also the birthplace and childhood home of film director Peter Jackson, whose first feature film, Bad Taste, was filmed there. He later went on to direct the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its prequel The Hobbit trilogy.
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Nov 15, 2024 · Peter Jackson grew up in the seaside village of Pukerua Bay, 40 minutes north of Wellington. His doting parents, Bill and Joan, had an early taste of their precocious son's future when he was given a super 8mm camera and proceeded to make war movies in the backyard.
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May 18, 2018 · Born in Pukerua Bay, just west of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1961, Jackson was raised on a television diet that included Monty Python's Flying Circus, Batman, and a British science–fiction program featuring marionettes called Thunderbirds.
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Sir Peter Jackson (born in Pukerua Bay, Porirua City, New Zealand) is a New Zealander film writer, director, and producer. He directed, produced, and helped to adapt both the live-action film trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, which are based on J.R.R. Tolkien's novels, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit, respectively.
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Peter Jackson has gone from being a shy, unknown fanboy making pastiche versions of his favourite fantasy movies, to a renowned master of his craft; from Pukerua Bay to Wellywood: today he has few peers in the realm of large scale filmmaking.
Pukerua Bay - Trip Ideas
Pukerua Bay sits atop a hill above Plimmerton on the Kāpiti Coast. Its claim to fame? It was the location for Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste. Apart from houses and a nearly secret cafe caravan just off Rawhiti Road, there's not much there. But it has a gorgeous beach, which is strictly local. You can access the beach from Pukerua Beach Road.
Peter Jackson: New Zealand's “film master” – Culture - The …
School dropouts with “bad taste” and big dreams. Screenwriter, producer and director Peter Jackson (52 years old) and some of his films. – Born on October 31, 1961 in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand. He left school at 17 and worked in a camera shop and at the local Wellington newspaper, the Evening Post.