On an Alternate Clockwork Orange
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You learn something new every day.
Mick Jagger wanted to star as Alex in A Clockwork Orange.
The Beatles wanted to compose the film’s soundtrack.
So says a letter from Mick Jagger’s manager, dating back to 1968. He was writing to John Schlesigner, the director attached to A Clockwork Orange.
Schlesinger passed on the project, and the involvement of Jagger and the Beatles passed along with him.
What a vastly different film that would have been.
I can almost imagine the Beatles’ Lord of the Rings film.
I can’t quite imagine this alternate Clockwork Orange, though.
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THRI20
May 9, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Mick Jagger? I cant see that.
May 10, 2008 at 8:16 am
I almost have glimpses. But it’s putting Jagger in Malcolm McDowell’s place in Kubrick’s film, and I know that’s not right. That’s not how the film would have been made with Schlesinger at the helm. There are things I can see, but then they fade away, fleeting images of a movie that never was.