(above) Concept art for unrealized SILVER SURFER movie.
“We’re going to make an epic picture on the scope of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY with the kind of soundtrack that that film had, only using contemporary rock and roll. It’s even conceivable that the Surfer might have a chant or a fanfare made up of one thousand electric guitars…doing the Silver Surfer has always been a dream of mine, and now it’s going to be realized.” —Lee Kramer, would-be SILVER SURFER producer (and Olivia Newton-John boyfriend), quoted in “Cosmic Silver” by James Burns, Mediascene Prevue #42, Sept/Oct 1980
Update: Lee Kramer tried to get Paul McCartney to score the film!
http://seanhowe.tumblr.com/post/31269288600/remember-the-silver-surfer-movie-that-never-got
silver surfer. That’s what I thought I was looking at,...I was like, “This is