The Beatles almost starred in Lord of The Rings and the Rolling Stones almost made A Clockwork Orange.

Stanley Kubrick was tapped by both.

Its the job thats never started as takes longest to finish, J.R.R.

Tolkien wrote inThe Lord of the Rings.Some works are weaker for their procrastination.

John Huston wanted to makeThe Man Who Would Be Kingwith Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable.

The Beatles versus the Rolling Stones debate has been going on for fifty years.

The Beatles crossed the Atlantic like a four-mop-topped Trojan horse.

They wanted to hold hands.

The Rolling Stones wanted to be your lover, baby.

The Rolling Stones followed the Beatles lead on many occasions.

They used sitar on Paint It Black, months after George Harrison worked out the lead for Norwegian Wood.

The Beatles made movies.

The Stones wanted to make movies.

Richard Lester had a huge success when he created the Citizen Kaneof Jukebox Movies,A Hard Days Night.

It showed the four cheeky Liverpudlian (Lever-pullers) musicians on a typical day.

They also turned down a homoerotic thriller calledUp Against It, written in 1967 by British playwright Joe Orton.

The Beatles again played versions of The Beatles.

Their films producer Walter Shenson said the band wanted to play something other than themselves.

Lennon reportedly wanted to play Gollum.

He cast Paul as Frodo, Ringo as Sam, and George as Gandalf.

Ackerman hadnt scored his big hit,Famous Monsters of Filmlandmagazine, yet.

I actually spoke about this with Paul McCartney.

Id heard rumors that it was going to be their next film after Help.

It was something John was driving and J.R.R.

So he killed it, Peter Jackson remembered in an interview withWellington Evening Postin 2002.

Jackson, of course, ultimately directedLord of The Rings.

Is the story true?

Pay heed to the tales of old wives.

Kubrick was still a few years away from adapting the futuristic novelA Clockwork Orangeby Anthony Burgess to film.

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He was trying to emulate the nadsat govereeted by the malchicks in the book.

It was inspired by a real-life home invasion suffered by Anthony Burgess and his wife.

Oldham discovered the novel while he lived with Jagger and Richards in London in 1964.

He wanted to make the anti-A Hard Days Night.

Southern wrote the novelCandy, which would be made into a soft porn movie with Ringo Starr.

Terry Southern was the man who introduced Stanley Kubrick toA Clockwork Orange.

Hed given a copy to the director when Kubrick was adapting hisDr.

Each had their merits and we only know what made it to the screen.