The Movie that Never Was - The Lamb

Way back in 1999 Garth Brooks, the country music star produced an album of alternative rock music under a fictional artist. Chris Gaines, which was initially going to accompany a film about the artist's life. Growing up with Garth Brooks I was highly intrigued. I loved his country music but this new sound was amazing and such a high risk. Brooks was practically shunned in the country music world for stepping out of the comfort zone of country music and it's a real shame. He changed his whole look for the role and promotion of the CD and film that never was. Unfortunately he returned to the country side of things with a less than thriller album, Scarecrow. This may seem irrelevant for what I normally discuss but I felt the amount of work that went into this alternative persona needed some discussion. There are so many movie projects that are only halfway completed or never go into distribution. I remember reading in Entertainment Weekly that they were planning on doing a film version of Ender's Game and I was highly disappointed when they decided to shelve it, even though I wasn't quite happy with it being animated in the first place. It's a downside to capitalism of needed to make money instead of creating good art. Which also fits into television shows. Usually the one I love don't have the largest audiences and are cut even though they're something new and different besides all the versions of Law&Order, CSI and the like. Not to mention film sequels and prequels.

Where has the creativity gone?

This is also brings be to J.K.Rowling's new site pottermore. All we'll get is her notes of character backgrounds that she couldn't put into the book. Nor is she writing anything new. In a way Harry Potter has been eclipsed by Twilight and now Stephine Meyer's new book The Host is being made into a film. The site seems to be just a rehashing of what has gone before. Really splitting the last films of both Harry Potter and Twilight is just a money making venture is really needed? I guess only time will tell but for now enjoy these lost songs of Chris Gaines: