producing it and he directing it, and that movie didn't happen. It'd been about three or four months in prep and we were working on the screenplay and he was in New Zealand where the production was going to be based and he was working with the visual-effects guys and doing lots of maquettes and lots of production design and conceptualizing. Then the studio didn't want to go ahead and make it and they started sort of arguing amongst themselves. It was a co-production between Fox and Universal and so the thing kind of imploded and fell apart. We felt sorry for Neill because we'd offered him the job as director and we'd spent quite a few months working on it and it's pretty traumatic when a film falls apart, even though we saw it coming a little bit ahead of time. It's a pretty gut-wrenching thing because it happens when you've spent three or four months on a project and you're kind of emotionally committed to that project, so there is emotion involved and it gets pretty tough. So we just felt terrible for Neill and thought, 'My God, this is his introduction to the world of feature filmmaking?' He'd only done commercials and short films and then this happened, which we felt responsible for. We were supposed to look after him and nurture him and put him through this process and instead he's gone through hell. We felt terrible and obviously we still felt totally believing in his