You learn something new every day.<\/p>\n
Mick Jagger wanted to star as Alex in A Clockwork Orange<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The Beatles wanted to compose the film’s soundtrack.<\/p>\n
So says a letter from Mick Jagger’s manager, dating back to 1968<\/a>. He was writing to John Schlesigner, the director attached to A Clockwork Orange<\/i>.<\/p>\n Schlesinger passed on the project, and the involvement of Jagger and the Beatles passed along with him.<\/p>\n What a vastly different film that would have been.<\/p>\n I can almost<\/i> imagine the Beatles’ Lord of the Rings<\/i> film.<\/p>\n I can’t quite imagine this alternate Clockwork Orange<\/i>, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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,Continue reading “On an Alternate Clockwork Orange”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[578,98],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-stanley-kubrick","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}