Zardoz director John Boorman almost made a Lord of the Rings movie
John Boorman is the director behind Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, and Excalibur, but his CV nearly included a Lord of the Rings movie. It would have been a pretty bonkers interpretation, with Aragorn wielding double blades and Frodo and Galadriel getting it on. Boorman has said in his autobiography Money Into Light, and more recently…
