In the late 1980s, Coppola started considering concepts for a motion picture based upon the 19th-century novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio", and in 1991 Coppola and Warner Bros. began discussing the project as well as two others involving the life of J. Edgar Hoover and the children's novel "The Secret Garden". These discussions led to negotiations for Coppola to both produce and direct the "Pinocchio" project for Warner as well as "The Secret Garden" (which was made in 1993 and produced by American Zoetrope, but directed by Agnieszka Holland) and "Hoover", which never came to fruition. (A film was eventually made by Clint Eastwood in 2011 titled "J. Edgar", which was distributed by Warner.)