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September 8, 2014 2:19 AM

The Gram Parsons UFO film that never flew is the subject of a new exhibition in London.

Gram Parsons previously on MetaFilter

posted by chavenet (6 comments total)

Parsons was making his acting debut in a mind-boggling fantasy project that predated Star Wars by almost a decade.

Is Star Wars the only science fiction movie that the article's author has ever hear of?
posted by octothorpe at 4:31 AM on September 8, 2014 [3 favorites]

Phil Spector, a noted gun fan...

Checks out.
posted by goethean at 5:42 AM on September 8, 2014 [3 favorites]

Ah chavenet, how strange and tantalising to see this interesting combination of persons and a fragment of a project they never completed. Like holding a bit of broken pottery from an archaeological dig and wondering about the whole pot.

I fell in the wormhole of previouslies and came out an hour later with a "Thousand-Dollar Wedding" earworm.
posted by valetta at 6:02 AM on September 8, 2014 [3 favorites]

Is Star Wars the only science fiction movie that the article's author has ever hear of?

Doesn't matter if he has- science fiction movies are divided into Pre-Star Wars and After-Star Wars. It seems that he's saying those was a film in the style of post Star Wars films.
posted by happyroach at 7:22 AM on September 8, 2014

"The whole experience of making the film was like a technological tribal throw-down, with an energy buzz off the Richter scale,” Foutz says now.

Someone is still smoking the good stuff....
posted by mudpuppie at 7:53 AM on September 8, 2014

Now I'm depressed about the soundtrack music that was never written, which the Guardian article claims was to be a collaboration between Parsons and Roger McGuinn..
posted by Nerd of the North at 4:16 PM on September 8, 2014 [1 favorite]