Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): Filmmaker Peter Jackson is planning to convert dragon adventure books ‘Temeraire’ into a TV series.

The ‘Lord of the Rings’ director purchased the rights to author Naomi Novik’s fantasy novels in 2006 in a bid to turn the stories into movies.

However, he is now having second thoughts and planning to take the project to the small screen.

“I can’t see any degree of common sense in trying to mount them one at a time as feature films. To me the stories, having read the first ones, already work as this continuing, on-going saga, so I’m thinking ‘Is there a marketplace out there yet for a large budget mini-series?’” Contactmusic quoted Jackson as telling movie website AintItCool.com.

“…I’m thinking is there actually a market out there that’d give us the budget to do this properly and allow us to shoot this as a six, seven or eight part series where we have freedom, we have great production values and are able to tackle it as the epic saga that it deserves?” he added. (ANI)