{"id":1530,"date":"2008-07-01T00:35:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T04:35:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T22:14:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:14:56","slug":"i-ve-purchased-the-rights-to-the-eric-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-ve-purchased-the-rights-to-the-eric-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Purchased the Rights to the Eric Burdon and War Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I purchased the film rights to the <strong>Eric Burdon and War Story<\/strong>. I&#8217;d been negotiating for the rights to the <strong>Eric Burdon&#8217;s and the Animals Story<\/strong> &#8211; you know, that &#8220;San Franciscan Nights&#8221;\/&#8221;Sky Pilot&#8221; era of the Animals &#8211; but then I saw this:<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s21Z648PPkM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The rights to the Eric Burdon and War Story were about a third the price. It was a no brainer. Along with the climactic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/04\/08\/happy_birthday_from_magic_mountain\"><strong>&#8220;Spill the Wine&#8221;\/&#8221;Magic Mountain&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> scene, I&#8217;d work this into the film:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cRnEld9CL_4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got <strong>Mark Wahlberg<\/strong> in mind to portray Burdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I purchased the film rights to the Eric Burdon and War Story. I&#8217;d been negotiating for the rights to the Eric Burdon&#8217;s and the Animals Story &#8211; you know, that &#8220;San Franciscan Nights&#8221;\/&#8221;Sky Pilot&#8221; era of the Animals &#8211; but then I saw this: The rights to the Eric Burdon and War Story were <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-ve-purchased-the-rights-to-the-eric-bu\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}