Director Peter Jackson discusses his new film made from archive footage of soldiers in the First World War, They Shall Not Grow Old.
Have YOU got a story? Email. READ MORE:. READ MORE:Lord of the Rings director Peter Robert Jackson has put $10 million toward a Texas startup company aimed at reviving extinct animals such as the dodo bird.
Others include athletes such as Tom Brady and Tiger Woods; entertainers including Paris Hilton and Chris Hemsworth; and business figures such as tech billionaire Thomas Tull and the Winklevoss Capital Management firm, according to the outlet. The Dallas company Colossal Biosciences is aimed at bringing back extinct animals such as the dodo bird. A dodo skeleton pictured in the U.K. in 2016
Read More The Lord of the Rings review: The Stranger's identity is FINALLY revealed in Season 2 finale Colossal Biosciences projects include the rewriting of elephant DNA using wooly mammoth genetics to develop an embryo with characteristics of the extinct animal. It also has plans on bringing back the Tasmanian tiger and wooly mammoth.
Mauritian Wildlife Foundation conservation director Vikash Tatayah said, 'The dodo, a bird intimately woven in the DNA of Mauritius, is also sadly iconic for the role mankind played in its extinction ... we are so grateful for Colossal's technologies and the promise to return this iconic species, extinct since the 1680s, to its native environment.'
Jackson won three Oscars in 2004 for 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Best Picture, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; and Best Director, sharing the first two honors with Walsh.The outlet reported Jackson's net worth rose substantially in 2021 with the sale of a percentage of his digital effects studio to the company Unity Software for a $1.6 billion cash and stock package.
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