News for Nov. 05, 2005

Jackson not buying wolf movie rights

11/05/05, 10:50 am EST - Xoanon

Peter Jackson has no intention of buying the rights to China's best-selling novel Wolf Totem. And he will not be raising wolves in New Zealand or having his Weta Digital company produce computer graphics of Mongolian wolves, either, says a spokesman for the New Zealand director, Matt Dravitzky. He was responding to an article in the New York Times that Jackson had acquired and planned to produce a film based on Wolf Totem. Mr Dravitzky said the newspaper had got it wrong and would be printing a correction. [More]