According to an interview with Malcom McDowell in a German newspaper the Stones bought the rights for Clockwork Orange from Anthony Burgess. Mick Jagger was supposed to play the star role. Somehow Kubrick got the rights and we all know how things developped.

Here's the link (only in germann)
[www.sueddeutsche.de]

the way ALO tells it, he got the idea of the Stones doing it and stirred up a bunch of PR about it
before checking whether the rights were even available - when he did that, he found Kubrick already had them.

I remember reading an article, which said that a screenplay was passed on to The Stones. I seem to remember that Terry Southern and Michael Cooper wrote it.

Also, the article says that Kubrick didn't acquire the rights, before after he abandonded his 'Napoleon' project, which was supposed to follow '2001'.

I'll see if I still have that article somewhere.

Sounds interesting, but I'm afraid the resulting film would have had more than it's share of unintentionally hiliarious moments.

ALO talks about perceiving a PR need to keep up a fairly steady buzz about the Stones doing a film,
and there was a "we're not comedians" aspect to it, to set them apart from the Beatles,
but yeah i think it is a good thing it never came to fruition. ALO also says that when he saw Charlie Is My Darling
he realized that the Stones were not quite cut out to be film actors, at least not at that point in their lives. :E

>> I remember reading an article, which said that a screenplay was passed on to The Stones.
I seem to remember that Terry Southern and Michael Cooper wrote it. <<

i'm just repeating what i recall ALO saying about it, which isn't necessarily ironclad truth.
they did also consider a few other scripts: Only Lovers Left Alive was one,
and something called Back Behind & In Front.



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<<i'm just repeating what i recall ALO saying about it, which isn't necessarily ironclad truth>>

Yes I know. Sorry if my last post sounded as if I was correcting you. It was not what I intended. I just wrote what I remember reading.

Anyway here's the article I was referring to: [assets.cambridge.org] It's 20 pages long, and the part with The Stones is from the middle of page 6 to the middle of page 7.

cool Sohoe - and if you want to correct me feel free! we all need someone we can ... something! :E
and thanks for the article.

tatters Wrote:
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> Sounds interesting, but I'm afraid the resulting
> film would have had more than it's share of
> unintentionally hiliarious moments.


Although the Stones would have made great droogs.

Roll73 Wrote:
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> Although the Stones would have made great droogs.


absolutely, just check the Welcome To New York bootleg cartoon cover - a perfect gang, perfect hoodlums = perfect droogs.



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> absolutely, just check the Welcome To New York
> bootleg cartoon cover - a perfect gang, perfect
> hoodlums = perfect droogs.



Yes, perfect CARTOON droogs. Convincingly portraying a murderous gang in a full-length feature film would have been quite another matter, though it would have been fun to see Charlie wearing a derby and putting the boot in. (That's English slang for kicking the crap out of someone, isn't it?)

tatters Wrote:
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> > bootleg cartoon cover - a perfect gang, perfect
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> Yes, perfect CARTOON droogs. Convincingly
> portraying a murderous gang in a full-length
> feature film would have been quite another matter,
> though it would have been fun to see Charlie
> wearing a derby and putting the boot in. (That's
> English slang for kicking the crap out of someone,
> isn't it?)

True - in a full-length film it could have turned into a Beatles 'Help'-style farce. Would have been great to see them all done up in white boiler suits maybe in an alternate promo video for JJ Flash. Blur actually did this a few years ago in the video for their song The Universal. Not exactly as menacing as Brian or Keith would have looked pearing out from under a bowler hat though.

The funny thing is that gang in Clockwork Orange is four gangmembers. The Rolling Stones have 5 band members. So they would had to make up a fifth character or this script wasn't working.

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There was also a scene filmed in the Chelsea Drugstore!

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> There was also a scene filmed in the Chelsea
> Drugstore!
There was indeed, in the downstairs record shop with the low ceiling and the heady aroma of joss sticks in the air, take me back there......










Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey album on display......