Before Stanley Kubrick (1928 –1999) got hold of "A Clockwork Orange", writer Anthony Burgess (1917 –1993) negotiated with Mick Jagger, who wanted to obtain film rights for the sum of a few hundred dollars.
Jagger wanted to make a film in which his "Rolling Stones" would play the heartless thugs in white.
Fortunately for Kubrick and film art history, Mick gave up on that idea and the role was given to Malcolm McDowell, who won great acclaim for his role as Alex DeLarge, a young sociopathic hoodlum brainwashed by a dystopian British government of the near future.
Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” was nominated for four Academy Awards and won numerous prestigious awards.
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