Peter Jackson is a New Zealand-born filmmaker best-known as the director of the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, which he, along with his long time partner, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens adapted from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. The movie starrs Elijah Wood, Viggo Morgensten, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler and many other actors. Then, Universal Studios signed Peter Jackson for a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong, the film that inspired him to become a film director when he was 9 years old.