Peter Jackson is receiving plenty of media attention in the wake of his epic eight-hour Beatles documentary, Get Back. However, fans of the director may be surprised that he has another tie to the Fab Four. Years before Jackson’s beloved adaptation of Lord of the Rings was filmed, the Beatles attempted to bring off a live-action adaptation themselves. Only to be denied by JRR Tolkien himself.
According to Jackson, the attempt was made in 1968, just two years prior to the band’s dissolution after their producer Denis O’Dell sent the members copies of the book while they were on hiatus in India. According to Jackson, “I expect because there are three, he sent one book to each of the Beatles,” Jackson said. “I don’t think Ringo got one, but John, Paul, and George each got one Lord of the Rings book to read in India. And they got excited about it.”
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