Around the same time, he also tried to get several projects off the ground such as the post-Holocaust novel "After" by Melvin Jules Bukiet with producer friend Julia Rosenberg as well as a proposed film based on Julian Barnes' 1992 novel "The Porcupine", but was unable to raise funds for either of them. He also had an idea for a film called "1999 Cum in the Rye" that was conceptualized as the final installment of his 1990s trilogy, but it also couldn't raise enough funding.