Yes, we can all thank Captain Obvious for the above headline. Peter Jackson is an admitted fanboy. And as he reveals in the video below, so are his contemporaries. Dudes like James Cameron. Robert Zemeckis. They hail from an older generation of course, so their influences skew a little further back than some might. But they all love themselves the nerdfest that is Comic-Con.
As Jackson puts it: "These are guys that, really, if they weren't filmmakers they'd be walking the floor of Comic-Con wearing ["Star Wars"] Stormtrooper outfits."
