Richard OBrien reveals this famous rocker tried to buy The Rocky Horror Picture Show film rights

Owned by Jagger.In the new documentary “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,” creator Richard O’Brien revealed that Mick Jagger and his team tried to buy the film rights to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” after the stage show made its US debut in 1974.But director Jim Sharman advised that they shouldn’t go for Jagger’s deal, and with producer Lou Adler’s help, they created the film without a big name attached.“One of the great things about this is that we were a fringe theater event, and we were allowed to make a movie,” O’Brien, 83, said in the doc, according to People.“Not only that, but Jim was allowed to direct it.Not only that, but Brian Thompson was allowed to be the artistic director.

Not only that, but Tim [Curry] was allowed to play the lead role,” the famous producer continued.“That’s very rare, especially when it’s America and a Hollywood matter.”Patricia Quinn, who played Magenta in the original stage play and the 1975 film adaptation, revealed that Jagger, 81, was also interested in Curry’s role in the movie.

[There were] three people who wanted to play [Dr.Frank-N-Furter] — Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, and of course, David Bowie,” Quinn, 81, recalled.

“[They said] no Mick Jaggers, no Bowies, I’m having the original cast,” she added.As revealed in the doc, “The Rocky Horror Show” made it to the big screen after producers Adler, 91, and Michael White made a $1 million deal with the studio.They agreed to present their own funds if the film didn’t make that amount, per People.“From the beginning, I had the feeling it was an event and something very, very special by the cast and the music, immediately,” Adler recalled of the original stage production, which premiered in London in 1973.

“Enough so that I wanted to make a deal that night,” he added.Adler also said that The Roxy in Los Angeles was the “perfect” location for the show’s debut in America.“Sort of like cabaret, that you cou...