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In the late 60s, John Lennon was keen on making a live-action film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord or the Rings. He wanted to star as Gollum, with McCartney as Frodo, George as Gandalf and Ringo as Sam. Perhaps driven by this notion, United Artists (the film studio that released the Beatles earlier films) acquired the books film rights in 1969. However, as McCartney told director Peter Jackson at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002, it was J.R.R Tolkien himself who killed the idea. (Other accounts suggest that Stanley Kubrick squashed the idea when he was asked to direct, because he believed the novels were unfilmable.)
Posted on: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:36:39 +0000

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