WI: Beatles Produced "Lord of the Rings" Adaptation
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The legend say he hate the adaptation of classic fairy tales into animated musicals who killed the impact of the originals(like Snow White redemption war and queen punishment, the cinderella subplot among others), as the legend say he fear they would make the same to his Middle Earth Saga thus banned disney for it
It's a fair criticism of Disney animation. Another sin is coopting the property. It's not "Pinocchio", for example; it's "Walt Disney's Pinocchio". It's not "Cinderella", it's "Walt Disney's Cinderella". And everything of that entity as an independent work with all the depth and history to it is removed, and people think of it in terms of the Disney version without even thinking of it as just one version.
So LOTR avoiding that was a fair concern.
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See below if you want to see Harlan Ellison take the piss out of Disney. Walt Disney was kinda a dick, if you look at his treatment of P.L. Travers, among multitudes of other things (reporting animators to HUAC for another). Tolkien was right to be terrified about what Disney could have done to his work, because whether Walt Disney and/or the Walt Disney corporation, they would have done what they wanted and would have told Tolkien to go stuff it if he was upset or wanted changes once they got the film rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNIFEHN1_cY
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On a serious note about the music, it would be interesting to see the Beatles adapt the poetry and lyrics of Tolkien to music, mixed with an orchestral score by George Martin.
Not sure on the legal and royalty stuff regarding the Beatles doing that, though.
Not sure on the legal and royalty stuff regarding the Beatles doing that, though.
I and Glass onion on another thread once speculated that "I want you (She's so heavy)" and "Here comes the sun" might've made good songs for a LOTR soundtrack.
"I want you" could be Golom's theme song and "Here comes the sun" would be a good song for the ending of the film.
jahenders
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That's pretty horrible. A Beatles LOTR film could be that bad or it might look like an episode of "The Monkees"
They wouldn't be starring in it. The point is Apple's film division produces the film.
Surely the Beatles and Apple had enough resources to actually animate the movie if they went the animated route.
I'm not sure of the animation capability in-house of Apple. They could have some animation studio animate it, regardless; what producing it means is seeing the project through, putting up money, and taking in money from the box office.
Yellow Submarine was animated by a company called TVC London, who later went on to make The Snowman and When the Wind Blows. They also did the animated parts of the BBC adaption of The Chronicles of Narnia. I guess they're a good candidate for Apple to choose for this project.
Cheers,
Nigel.
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I would think he would like the musical elements, I certainly remember struggling through vast quantities of lyrics as a child.
Another good candidate for Gandalf: Christopher Lee.
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Lee wanted to play Gandalf, is a major Tolkien fan, and lobbied the idea for years until he became too old.
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Lee wanted to play Gandalf, is a major Tolkien fan, and lobbied the idea for years until he became too old.
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Christopher Lee also had met Tolkien and was a major fan of the Lord of the Rings. So he may have the stronger chance of being made Gandalf. Maybe Nimoy could play Aragorn.