{"id":53939,"date":"2012-03-01T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=53939"},"modified":"2012-03-01T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:45:08","slug":"john-lennons-gollum-what-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/01\/53939-john-lennons-gollum-what-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon&#8217;s Gollum &#8211; what might have been&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/01\/53939-john-lennons-gollum-what-might-have-been\/beatles-lord-of-the-rings\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53940\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-53940 no-lazyload\" title=\"beatles-lord-of-the-rings\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beatles-lord-of-the-rings-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beatles-lord-of-the-rings-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beatles-lord-of-the-rings.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The folks at IFC.com have sent us along a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/fix\/2012\/03\/tales-from-development-hell-beatles-lord-of-the-rings\">their great interview <\/a>with David Hughes, author of the new book <em>Tales from Development Hell<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0book is about the trials of endeavouring to get a film beyond the development stage, and includes discussion of failed projects such as a film of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <em>Sandman<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0a Batman movie to have starred Clint Eastwood!\u00a0 Of most interest to Tolkien fans, the book also contains some insight into the once proposed <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> movie which was to have starred The Beatles.\u00a0\u00a0If you haven&#8217;t heard of this before, it sounds like some crazy April Fool&#8217;s joke &#8211; but yes,\u00a0\u00a0there really <em>was<\/em> a plan for such a film,\u00a0and it&#8217;s a great part of Tolkien fandom &#8216;lore&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0IFC.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/fix\/2012\/03\/tales-from-development-hell-beatles-lord-of-the-rings\">article <\/a>includes an exclusive excerpt from <em>Tales from Development Hell<\/em>, \u00a0which reveals more about what we might have seen had McCartney&#8217;s Frodo, Lennon&#8217;s Gollum, Starr&#8217;s Sam and Harrison&#8217;s Gandalf ever seen the light of day.\u00a0 We can only wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at IFC.com have sent us along a link to their great interview with David Hughes, author&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":53940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1362,5,1359,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-lotr-movies","category-shop","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beatles-lord-of-the-rings.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-e1Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53946,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939\/revisions\/53946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}