Mr Jackson, who also directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, will set up an interactive arm of his firm, Wingnut, and will work with Halo creators BungieStudios to develop the series.
An unhappy Jobs called Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer after the software company, and Apple rival, snapped up BungieStudios in June of 2000, Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft said in an interview with Develop, a videogame trade magazine .