Peter Jackson and the WETA team are currently working on 4K restorations of Jackson’s first four films, including gross-out horror movies Bad Taste and Dead Alive, but would the man who has become more known for directing the Lord of the Rings films ever be up for making a return to horror? Sam Raimi did it, so maybe Peter Jackson is next? Hopefully?
In a new chat with THR, Jackson seems pretty open to the idea.
“Oh, I’m very happy to be disgusting again if the right project comes along,” he told the site. “It would be interesting to see how disgusting [co-writer Fran Walsh] and I could be in our older age compared to our younger years because we’ve learned a few things since then.”
He added, “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!”
Jackson hasn’t returned to his horror roots since The Frighteners in 1996, and fans of Bad Taste and Dead Alive have been long begging for more splatter from him. Here’s hoping!