Did You Know: Peter Jackson Almost Directed Meet The Robinsons

By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 5:11 am EST

Did You Know: Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson almost directed Meet The Robinsons as a live action movie?

Our friends at FilmIck point out the following quote from The Shreveport Times interview with author and illustrator William Joyce (the creator of A Day with Wilbur Robinson, the book that inspired the new Disney movie).

“Initially the idea was to adapt Joyce’s wildly detailed book into a live-action feature. Joyce drafted multiple screenplays. Various directors and Disney executives got close to green-lighting it in the ’90s — including director Peter Jackson, for a day — but they never flipped the switch.”

I wonder what that movie would have been like.

Did You Know: Peter Jackson Almost Directed Meet The Robinsons

By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 5:11 am EST

Did You Know: Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson almost directed Meet The Robinsons as a live action movie?

Our friends at FilmIck point out the following quote from The Shreveport Times interview with author and illustrator William Joyce (the creator of A Day with Wilbur Robinson, the book that inspired the new Disney movie).

“Initially the idea was to adapt Joyce’s wildly detailed book into a live-action feature. Joyce drafted multiple screenplays. Various directors and Disney executives got close to green-lighting it in the ’90s — including director Peter Jackson, for a day — but they never flipped the switch.”

I wonder what that movie would have been like.

Our friends at FilmIck point out the following quote from The Shreveport Times interview with author and illustrator William Joyce (the creator of A Day with Wilbur Robinson, the book that inspired the new Disney movie).

I wonder what that movie would have been like.

“Initially the idea was to adapt Joyce’s wildly detailed book into a live-action feature. Joyce drafted multiple screenplays. Various directors and Disney executives got close to green-lighting it in the ’90s — including director Peter Jackson, for a day — but they never flipped the switch.”