{"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’s Gollum – what might have been…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The folks at IFC.com have sent us along a link to their great interview <\/a>with David Hughes, author of the new book 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’s 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 Lord of the Rings<\/em> movie which was to have starred The Beatles.\u00a0\u00a0If you haven’t heard of this before, it sounds like some crazy April Fool’s joke – but yes,\u00a0\u00a0there really was<\/em> a plan for such a film,\u00a0and it’s a great part of Tolkien fandom ‘lore’.\u00a0\u00a0IFC.com’s article <\/a>includes an exclusive excerpt from Tales from Development Hell<\/em>, \u00a0which reveals more about what we might have seen had McCartney’s Frodo, Lennon’s Gollum, Starr’s Sam and Harrison’s Gandalf ever seen the light of day.\u00a0 We can only wonder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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