Peter Jackson to produce and direct Metropolis remake
Rumors are spreading like wild fire that Peter Jackson has purchased the rights to remake the Fritz Lang classic 1927 movie Metropolis.
The project refereed to simply as “Metro 2013″ penned by Fran Walsh and Jackson was leaked earlier this Month, with an early outline, said to blast modern right wing ideology with strong political undertones.
Sources close to Jackson’s production company Wingnut films have declined to comment.
However it is well known that Jackson has been working an a high concept Sci-Fi movie for some time, is this it?, only time will tell..
Taken from Wikipedia
Metropolis was a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism. The film was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The most expensive silent film ever made, it cost approximately 5 million Reichsmark.[2]
Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere, and much footage was lost over the passage of successive decades. There have been several efforts to restore it, as well as discoveries of previously lost footage.
A 2001 reconstruction of Metropolis, shown at the Berlin Film Festival, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World 
Register in that same year.[3] In 2008, a copy of the film 30 minutes longer than any other known surviving copy was located in Argentina.
After a long period of restoration in Germany, the restored film was shown publicly for the first time simultaneously at Berlin and Frankfurt on February 12, 2010.[4] The event of the Friedrichstadtpalast was shown live on a screen at the Brandenburg Gate as well as on TV on ARTE.
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File photo (right): Peter Jackson receiving his Best director Oscar for The Return of the king.
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