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Mick Jagger wanted role in A Clockwork Orange
Published 5/6/2008 at Filmstalker
MickJagger.jpg I always find it quite interesting when you find out what casting changes were made to films before they were made. For many reasons people drop out or are replaced, usually you can't imagine that first person playing the role. Now we have found out that before Stanley Kubrick's involvement in A Clockwork Orange, Mick Jagger was interested in playing Alex, and the Beatles were to contribute to the soundtrack. A letter quoted in the Guardian sent from executive producer ...

The number one film in heaven.
Published 5/6/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... At the Guardian, Sean Michaels writes that "Somewhere in heaven there's a cinema playing movies that never were, films that existed solely in a producer's, an actor's, a screenwriter's imagination." And the one everyone would be lining up for would be a version of "A Clockwork Orange" that was bandied about pre-Kubrick. ...

Guardian reporter Sean Michaels has discovered ... [A Clockwork Orange]
Published 5/6/2008 by STV at Defamer
... Guardian reporter Sean Michaels has discovered a sort of epistolary parallel universe in which A Clockwork Orange is a late-'60s time capsule from hell: A recently unearthed letter from the period propositioned director John Schlesinger — presumably between his Oscar-winning films Darling and Midnight Cowboy — to helm the film with Mick Jagger in the lead. It gets better: The Beatles were reportedly interested in contributing songs. Alas, Schlesinger evidently had a problem with novelist Anthony Burgess's infamous ultraviolence; "the ...

PIC SLIP: Our National Birds Beaks Are Falling Off
Published 5/7/2008 by Jenna at Best Week Ever
... Doesn't Mick Jagger make a darling Alex. Alex who? You ask. Why, the main character from A Clockwork Orange. If you don't know about this, you need to get film-schooled. ...