March 4^th, 2005 (1:39pm) - Director Peter Jackson is suing New Line Cinema to attain a greater share of the licensing profits from the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring, in a suit which calls on a failure to pay for script and song lyric use in a licensed EA videogame.

The director of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy names the EA videogame as one of the most important of 19 financial disagreements covered by the lawsuit, but doesn’t say exactly which of EA’s games is the problem.

EA has produced several Lord of the Rings games, including games directly based on The Two Towers and Return of the King as well as spin-off RPG The Third Age. Vivendi’s Fellowship of the Ring title, based on the books rather than the film, dealt with the first story.

Jackson, along with his partner Fran Walsh and their company Wingnut Films, listed the gaming problems prominently amongst the various allegations. New Line has declined to discuss them, but Wingnut lawyer Peter Nelson said the company had "attempted to resolve our differences... through the normal auditing process. That has proven unsatisfactory so far."

Jackson is currently working on a remake of King Kong, which Ubisoft has is in the works to turn into a videogame.