Peter Jackson is hard at work on several projects, one including a possible miniseries adaptation of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire book series.  In the books, the Napoleonic wars wage in the midst of dragons.

Jackson said, “I can’t see any degree of common sense in trying to mount them one at a time as feature films. To me the stories, having read the first ones, already work as this continuing, on-going saga, so I’m thinking ‘Is there a marketplace out there yet for a large budget mini-series?.’”

“I guess you’d think of things like HBO and you’d think of Band of Brothers and that sort of thing, but it’d be different than that. I’m thinking is there actually a market out there that’d give us the budget to do this properly and allow us to shoot this as a six, seven or eight part series where we have freedom, we have great production values and are able to tackle it as the epic saga that it deserves.”

Aint it Cool News has a full interview with Jackson here.

Source: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26457