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===''Temeraire''===

In 2006, ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' announced that Jackson optioned the film rights to [[Naomi Novik]]'s ''[[Temeraire (series)|Temeraire]]'' series. "[It's] a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love—fantasy and historical epic," Jackson said at the time.<ref>

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{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003120747|access-date=February 8, 2008|title=Lord of fantasy: Jackson eyeing 'Temeraire'|last=Kit|first=Borys|date=September 12, 2006|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014212618/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003120747|archive-date=October 14, 2007}}</ref> In a 2009 interview with [[IGN]], Jackson stated that he was considering adapting the novels in the form of a [[miniseries]] instead. "With six books, I really don't like the idea of making a big-budget movie of the first book and it not doing well at the box office and suddenly that's the end of the series."<ref>{{cite web|last=Monfette|first=Christopher|title=SDCC 09: Peter Jackson Updates IGN|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/24/sdcc-09-peter-jackson-updates-ign|website=[[IGN]]|access-date=23 May 2021|date=24 July 2009}}</ref>

==2010s==