| Coelacanth | 22 Aug 2017 7:18 p.m. PST |
Mind you, I have not fact-checked this: link Ron |
| Winston Smith | 22 Aug 2017 11:08 p.m. PST |
Sorry, but when you sell the rights, you sign away the rights to influence the production.
The way I read the story elsewhere, they just couldn't get financing. |
 piper909  | 23 Aug 2017 12:03 a.m. PST |
I do not know if Tolkien in fact disliked the Beatles, but I do know that the passing whim the Fab Four had toward acquiring the rights to LOTR and making this a Beatles flick didn't progress very far at all, and prompted more empty speculation than serious pre-production work. I doubt this even lasted as long as their momentary enthusiasm for buying that island in Greece in 1967 and setting up a commune/studio for themselves and their families and retainers. |
| Gone Fishing | 23 Aug 2017 12:00 p.m. PST |
I've never heard JRRT disliked The Beatles specifically, but he certainly loathed both rock and hippies, so they might well have been included under that umbrella. |
| goragrad | 23 Aug 2017 12:57 p.m. PST |
Remember hearing about this back in the day but as a passing rumor. Considering the Bakshi effort as the state of the art at the time, doubt it would have gone well. |
| Col Durnford | 23 Aug 2017 1:08 p.m. PST |
The Beatles doing Tolkien – "The Horror". But, down in the comments is a link to a write up on the Boorman LOTR script. link Well worth the read. |
| piper909 | 23 Aug 2017 2:22 p.m. PST |
Did some reading of these discussion board comments. If this 1970 Boorman script is legit -- it sounds dreadful. (And this is long before ZARDOZ!) This script and arrangement with United Artists also post-dates the time the Beatles expressed possible interest in the project. |
| Winston Smith | 23 Aug 2017 2:24 p.m. PST |
Having read the commentary on the Boorman script, all I can think is that we got off lucky.  |
| LostPict | 29 Aug 2017 1:21 p.m. PST |
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| Bob Runnicles | 30 Aug 2017 6:15 a.m. PST |
Hey I won't hear a bad word said about Nicol Williamson's Merlin, okay? ;) |
John Leahy  | 01 Sep 2017 10:43 a.m. PST |
Agreed! Nicol made Excalibur! |
