Source: TheOneRing.net | Aussie 7.30 | YouTube

Recently knighted Peter Jackson discussed The Lord of the Rings as well as The Hobbit in part 3 of an interview on the Aussie 7.30 Report TV show. Check it out below!

Here is the transcript from Aussie 7.30:

KERRY O’BRIEN: Lord of the Rings must seem a long time ago now in some ways although you’d be constantly reminded of it. But you’re now reliving that great fantasy ride via The Hobbit. But how different is it this time, writing it but not directing?

PETER JACKSON: Well, I haven’t really got to the point of quite getting my head round how different it’s gonna be, ’cause obviously we haven’t started shooting it yet. But we’re writing the script at the moment and I’m enjoying that. Basically the same team that wrote Lord of the Rings – Philippa, Fran and myself – are doing the script with Guillermo Del Toro, who’s also helping us this time round. So, you know, I was worried a little bit about the scriptwriting because I thought, you know, if we get together and we’ve gotta write this, is it gonna have changed? Is the eight or nine years that’s gone by since we last wrote Lord of the Rings gonna have – you know, is it gona have changed anything? Are we gonna feel alienated from it? Is it gonna be difficult? But as it was, we slipped right back into it. It was just like meeting old friends again; you know, the characters and Bilbo and Gandalf. So right now we’re still in the middle of the writing.

KERRY O’BRIEN: Was it really worth it taking on New Line, as you did, challenging them over the audit on Lord of the Rings? I’m filling in between the lines here; I assume it wasn’t so much about the money as about the thought that perhaps you were being taken?

PETER JACKSON: Well, the lawsuit from our point of view was about the fact that in our contract we had a right to audit the books of the movie. So, you know, at the end of two or three years, you have an accountant, you just – and it’s an accountant that both sides agree on and you have an accountant come in and they look at the books and, you know, we had a little percentage of the profits, so you have to figure out if you’ve been paid what that is. And the lawsuit was all about the fact that they refused to allow the audit to happen. It wasn’t actually …

KERRY O’BRIEN: Which must’ve left you wondering why?

PETER JACKSON: Well, yeah, that’s why the lawsuit happened, ’cause you can’t help it. I mean, what else are you gonna do? You’re gonna have to wonder why. Exactly.