 Afterwards, he read a tie-in edition of the book during a twelve-hour train journey from Wellington to Auckland when he was seventeen.In 1995, Jackson was finishing "The Frighteners" and considered "The Lord of the Rings" as a new project, wondering "why nobody else seemed to be doing anything about it".With the new developments in computer-generated imagery following 1993's "Jurassic Park", Jackson set about planning a fantasy film that would be relatively serious and feel real.