Billionaire film director Peter Jackson, best known for being behind the blockbuster “Lord of the Rings” series, has become the latest high-profile investor in a startup that has made a name for itself by attempting to bring back the extinct dodo bird and woolly mammoths.Line Cinema, MGM Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures'"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" at Dolby Theatre on December 9, 2014 in Hollywood, California.
Jackson, with his partner Fran Walsh, invested $10 million into Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences to helpwith genetic sequencing and the Human Genome Project, to continue Church’s longtime, yet slow-going project to revive the woolly mammoth and the “Hobbit” films . Jackson’s studio wasfor its advanced custom software that could generate and render images like the character Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” or the “Avatar” movies’ planet of blue-skinned aliens. Warner Bros.
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