Once upon a time in the 1960s, when The Beatles were on top of the world and one of their projects was, after their first two films, to make a movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. It was such an ambitious plan that they even wanted Stanley Kubrick to oversee it.
Obviously that never came together, and the director ended up making the classic film called 2001: Odyssey in Space, but now a deepfake seeks to blend The Beatles into the version that Peter Jackson directed several decades later.
And just like that, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are superimposed in the roles of Frodo and Sam, while George Harrison is the wizard Gandalf. All we have left is John Lennon who is given the honor of portraying Gollum.
The result is not the fairest, but at least it serves as a reminder that at some point in time this could have been a movie for the classics. Obviously, we can’t have The Beatles in a movie without their music, ‘Let Be.’
The Beatles: The Lord of the Rings [DEEPFAKE TRAILER] from Alex Skorkin on Vimeo.
