So in the same way that I wrote Terminator, which was sort of just to get a directing gig, I decided to write a story full of creatures and characters that would push the art of CG for that company. But when we looked at it, and they broke it down they said “We can’t do this — what are you out of your mind?” So I literally stuck the treatment in a drawer. When I got it out four years ago I thought, wow, this is more timely than ever, with us being at war, with us being in an environmental crisis than at any other point in the history of the human race. And by the way, it was just a damn good read. I’d sort of completely forgotten about it enough to look at it with fresh eyes. So I went back to it and said, we can do this now. Peter Jackson had done the second Lord of the Rings film at that point. Gollum was looking pretty damn good, looked like some soul and some real personality could be captured by CG. To me that was like the door opening on the possibility of being able to make this movie.