Wellington
(ANI):
Film-maker
Peter
Jackson
plans
to
make
a
movie
on
Gallipoli
ahead
of
the
April
2015
centenary
of
the
ill-fated
Anzac
landings
on
the
peninsula
in
World
War
I.
The
helmer
had
planned
to
give
a
New
Zealand
perspective
years
ago
after
the
release
of
Australian
director
Peter
Weir's
1981
film
Gallipoli,
but
now
he
plans
to
make
a
more
balanced
version.
"I
have
been
thinking
about
it
recently," Stuff.co.nz
quoted
him
as
telling
Australia's
ABC.
He
added:
"I
have
been
thinking
that
I'd
do
it
much
more
from
a
combined
Australian
and
New
Zealand
point
of
view.
I
don't
think
that
we
need
necessarily
to
tell
a
film
from
a
New
Zealand
perspective
because
the
Anzac
tradition,
the
Australian
and
New
Zealand,
were
so
intertwined
in
that
particular
campaign
that
I
think
it
would
be
a
mistake.
To
me,
it's
a
remarkable
part
of
our
history
and
Peter
Weir
obviously
made
a
great
movie
but
Peter's
movie
was
set
around
events
of
August
7th,
August
8th,
1915.
Gallipoli
was
a
seven
or
eight
month
long
campaign
and
that
story
is
yet
to
be
told
on
film,
so
I'd
like
to
do
that."
The
Lord
of
the
Rings
director"s
grandfather
had
even
won
a
conduct
medal
at
Gallipoli.
He
said:
"I
went
to
Gallipoli
in
1990
for
the
75th
anniversary.
That
was
the
amazing
year
where
...
50
of
the
original
diggers
were
there.
It
was
an
amazing
experience
to
see
them
all
looking
at
this
landscape
that
most
of
them
hadn''t
seen
since
1915,
hadn't
seen
it
for
75
years."