The Lord of the Rings Oscar winner Peter Jackson has not directed a narrative feature film in more than a decade.

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His last feature, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” was released in 2014. Since then, Jackson has pivoted to documentaries with 2018’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” and 2021’s “The Beatles: Get Back.” Jackson recently spoke to ScreenRant and was asked about his decade-plus hiatus from feature filmmaking.

“No, no. I’m certainly not retired,” Jackson said. “We are currently working on three different screenplays. I’m at the moment writing three different scripts.”

Together with the company’s CEO Ben Lamm and archaeologist Kyle Davis, Jackson has been trying to bring the Giant Moa back from extinction.

“To me, de-extincting the Moa would be just as exciting, if not more exciting, than any film I could possibly make,” Jackson told ScreenRant. “I’ve made a lot of movies, but to see the Giant Moa brought back would be level of excitement that I think would supersede anything at this point in time.”

“Colossal Biosciences has announced an effort to genetically engineer living birds to resemble the extinct South Island giant moa – which once stood 12 feet (3.6 meters) tall – with $15 million in funding from Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh. The collaboration also includes the New Zealand-based Ngāi Tahu Research Centre.”