Excuse me if this has been posted before but an unusual Stones related artifact is on the market involving a film script for an ambitious Jagger film project in 1967.

Jagger was interested in furthering his own career into films in 67 and commissioned writers Christopher Gibbs and Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon to write a script based on the middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

The contract commissioning this work is signed by Mick, Marianne and the writers.

It's up for sale for $4500. Thought of getting it as an investment but not sure if it's a sound investment. Any thoughts?



LONDON, 1967. MICK JAGGER AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Typed Contract signed between Jagger and writers* Christopher Gibbs and Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon whereby Jagger engages them to write a "full cinematograph film treatment" based on the Arthurian romance, "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight"
Jagger, Michael Philip ("Mick").

N.p. [London:]: 5 December, 1967.

6 pp., accomplished in ink, signed by all parties and witnessed by a fourth, Jagger's signature appearing over a six pence stamp of the Queen. Folio. LONDON, 1967. MICK JAGGER AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. Stapled to red paper backing. Old folds, but overall very good. Item #245869

[with:] Typescript of the treatment, entitled "The Story of Venus and the Quest for Arthur's Kingdom". [16] pp., 4to, N.p., n.d. With numerous ink corrections, deletions and additions in ms. Slightly ragged at edges, dog-eared, with some soiling, but complete and intact.

Toward the late 1960s, when the Rolling Stones had evolved into a major rock band, Mick Jagger's ambition was turning to film as a possible outlet for his charismatic talents. One of the zanier projects Jagger developed was that of producing and starring in a film based on the Arthurian romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. As Marianne Faithfull, his girlfriend at the time, later wrote; "Mick began taking acting lessons ...Then there was THE MAN WHO SHOT MICK JAGGER and a whole slew of hippie projects. Christopher Gibbs and Nigel Gordon had written a script based on the mystical Middle English romance GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. Mick was going to play the Green Knight - Mick and Keith do the Middle Ages!"

The present contract records the terms of that somewhat improbable project, which, not surprisingly, never materialized - but is nonetheless, an important document early in the career, at a critical juncture, of one of the revolutionary icons of the 60's counter culture.

*Gibbs is a well known collector, designer, and style guru who decorated Jagger's house on Cheyne Walk, and whose own house was used in a scene in Michaelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up. Gibbs was later employed by co-director Donald Cammell on the film Performance as the Consultant Designer of the character Turner's house. Lesmoir- Gordon was a film editor at the time working for David Cammell, of Cammel, Hudson and Brownjohn. David Cammell co-produced Performance. Lesmoir-Gordon has since produced and directed several television documentaries, among which is the award winning The Colours of Infinity, written by Lesmoir- Gordon and presented by Arthur C. Clarke, with music by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

Price: $4,500.00
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013-12-22 14:42 by Silver Dagger.

It would have been interesting to see Mick getting beheaded, I suppose, but hard not to think they made the right decision here . .

How interesting, that Sir Michael dreamed of being a knight way back then. Or, perhaps it's just an English thing, a heroic sort of romantic fantasy. I wonder who they had in mind for the soundtrack.

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How interesting, that Sir Michael dreamed of being a knight way back then. Or, perhaps it's just an English thing, a heroic sort of romantic fantasy. I wonder who they had in mind for the soundtrack.

Maybe more of those baroque'n'roll Stones classics like Lady Jane and Ride On Baby.

Scripts do not tend to be a good investment with a small niche market, that usually doesn't appreciate well. Unless the script is from a well known movie signed by an actor or director. The contract is kind of iffy as well, especially for that amount of money. Usually Jag's sig at tops goes for around 7 hundred to a 1,000.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013-12-23 14:31 by whitem8.

If he'd been having a romantic fantasy, though, I'm sure he 'd have wanted to be Sir Gawain. The Green Knight is rather a controlling dude, though, so. .