Peter Jackson offers sneak preview of new WWI film

Kiwi film director and war aficionado Peter Jackson has released a sneak preview of his latest movie.

They Shall Not Grow Old has seen Jackson - who is both producer and director of the film - transform 100-year-old footage from The Great War into colour.

Announcing the flick on his Facebook page, he states he's "immensely proud and honoured to able to share the trailer for They Shall Not Grow Old".

"This is The Great War as you've never seen it, but as the soldiers lived it - in colour."

The film is being premiered in London on October 16.

Hi folks I’m immensely proud and honoured to able to share the trailer for They Shall Not Grow Old. This is The Great...

Posted by Peter Jackson on Friday, 28 September 2018

It will be Jackson's first movie in four years, following the release of the latest in his Hobbit series The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.