{"id":1883,"date":"2012-11-09T15:32:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T15:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:12:54","slug":"the-greatest-movie-never-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=1883","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Movie Never Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Attractions Story! <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026 featuring Nicholas Lyndhurst\u00a0 as the Drummer, Gabriel Byrne as the Keyboard Player, and\u00a0Frank Carson as the Singer.\u00a0\u00a0 I would demand to be played by Kiefer Sutherland \u2014 but most likely Donald would get the call.<\/p>\n

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Mike Miller asks who would play “the Manager”.\u00a0 Step forward Harry H Corbett of Steptoe<\/em> fame.\u00a0 The Manager himself seems OK with the casting , but Harry H doesn’t look too sure.<\/p>\n

Perhaps\u00a0we should make the movie a musical; it offers abundant employment opportunities for other lookalikes.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A cameo role as The Boss\u00a0for\u00a0ex-Manchester \"\"<\/a>United\u00a0player\u00a0Lou Macari.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>By request … Danger Man<\/em> himself, Patrick McGoohan, as country music producer Billy Sherrill.\u00a0 A generous bit of casting, I know – on another day, it might have been Archie Bunker.<\/p>\n

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On reflection, Donald would make a much better Nick Lowe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Attractions Story! \u2026 featuring Nicholas Lyndhurst\u00a0 as the Drummer, Gabriel Byrne as the Keyboard Player, and\u00a0Frank Carson as the Singer.\u00a0\u00a0 I would demand to be played by Kiefer Sutherland \u2014 but most likely Donald would get the call.               Mike Miller asks who would play “the Manager”.\u00a0 Step forward Harry H Corbett of Steptoe fame.\u00a0 The Manager himself seems OK with the casting , but Harry H doesn’t look too sure. Perhaps\u00a0we should … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,1],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}