http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/28/rings.beatles/index.html
The Beatles were gong to do a LOTR.
What musicians would you cast? Jagger as Sauron, Chicago as the Dark Riders, Janis Joplin an Elf. Maybe Elvis would be Tom Bombadil, what with the drug thing and all.
I thank the sweet Lord above that we didn’t get Lennon as Gollum.
NO NO NO NO NO. Just … NO.
“OH YOKO! It’s tasty! It’s crunchable!”
Sorry.
Moving this to Cafe Society.
“We 4 hobbits in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine…”
[sub]Thanks to a friend for coming up with this after I e-mailed him the story.[/sub]
There was a thread on this that disappeard in the crash. A couple of suggested casting choices
Elrond - Elton John
Galadriel - Janis Joplin
Think of the music!
Rivendell Rock
I remember when earth was young,
All we elves had so much fun,
Slayin’ kin and smitin orcs,
Had a magic broadsword that would glow in the dark!
But the biggest kick I ever got
was doin’ a thing called the Rivendell Rock
While the other elves were fightin’ round the clock
We were hopping and bopping to the Rivendell Rock!
Galadriel’s Lament
Elven just another word for
Nothing left to lose
and nothing, that’s all Sauron left me.
But feeling good was easy back when
Sauron had the blues
and feeling good was good enough for me
even though I’m living stuck in a tree
I believe Fenris has some excellent contributions to that thread.
I would REALLY like some independent verification on this. For some reason it seems very far fetched to me. I can buy that the Beatles would have liked LOTR, but I think that they wouldn’t have got so far along in the process that J.R.R. Tolkein would have had to nix the idea.
Seems mighty close to April Fools day to me. Is Jackson or Mccartney pulling our legs? Or is it CNN?
Nevertheless, it is a good story, and kind of funny.
This was mentioned in a recent television biography I saw on the Ovation channel, and is briefly refered to in several Beatle biographies, among them THE LOVE YOU MAKE by Peter Brown.
It doesn’t sound like this idea ever went beyond the talking about it stage.
how about Hendrix as Sauromon.
Harrison v Hendrix as the mighty Maia? works for me
CJ
Somewhere in the cold distance, a Blarog did growl;
Nine riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl.
Elvis will be Strider. “Thank ya, thank ya ver’ much”.
Scary. Where’s a barfing smiley when you need one?
Thank God that it didn’t happen.