I also thought these contradictory accounts of Jackson's involvement were interesting. First there's this:
But later they say:Indeed, the director was the first skeptic of Apple's project to disinter the footage. "I actually didn’t say yes,"
recalls the three-time Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. "I said, 'Can I look at all the footage
first? And then I'll let you know.'"
Which is it?When Jackson casually asked about the Let It Be movie, he was told that a separate project to make a new
documentary from the rushes was in the works—but that the original director had just dropped out. At this,
Jackson perked up. "So I just put up my hand and I said, 'Well, if you've just lost a filmmaker, I’m sitting here,
I'll do it,'" he says.
