{"objectType":"Post","type":"Article","actorId":"@askian@kwln.city","actor":{"id":"@askian@kwln.city","type":"Person","name":"ASKIAN magoo","icon":"https://kwln.city/images/user.svg","url":"https://kwln.city/users/%40askian%40kwln.city","inbox":"https://kwln.city/users/%40askian%40kwln.city/inbox","outbox":"https://kwln.city/users/%40askian%40kwln.city/outbox","server":"@kwln.city"},"title":"THE FINAL PROGRAMME (1973)","body":"<p>Mick Jagger was offered the lead and turned it down for being too weird. </p>\n<p>Michael Moorcock is one of the most prolific fantasy writers who ever lived. In more than half a century, his vast body of work has been turned into a feature film only once. </p>\n<p>THE FINAL PROGRAMME (1973) gave his coolest creation, Jerry Cornelius, a Nobel-winning physicist, rock star, assassin, and impeccable dandy to Robert Fuest, the stylist behind the campy Vincent Price Dr. Phibes films. Fuest had started as a set designer, and it shows. The film is a dazzling pop-art fever dream more interested in looks than sense.</p>\n<p>The Final Programme is about a race to build the perfect self-sufficient immortal human as civilization collapses. Jenny Runacre steals it as Miss Brunner, a scientist who absorbs her lovers whole. </p>\n<p>Critics savaged it, audiences ignored it, Moorcock disowned it, and yet, decades on, it survives as a cult object, beloved by people who treasure just this kind of magnificent, swaggering failure.</p>\n","wordCount":164,"charCount":995,"replyCount":0,"reactCount":0,"reactPreview":null,"reactSummary":null,"shareCount":0,"image":"file:6aaada66c481a621ed9331a5@kwln.city","tags":[],"originDomain":"kwln.city","attachments":[],"createdAt":"2026-09-16T18:05:27.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-16T18:05:32.244Z","id":"post:6aaada66c481a621ed9331a9@kwln.city","url":"https://kwln.city/posts/post:6aaada66c481a621ed9331a9@kwln.city","server":"@kwln.city","summary":"<p>Mick Jagger was offered the lead and turned it down for being too weird.</p>\n<p>Michael Moorcock is one of the most prolific fantasy writers who ever lived. In more than half a century, his vast body of work has been turned into a feature film only once.</p>\n","textPreview":"Mick Jagger was offered the lead and turned it down for being too weird. Michael Moorcock is one of the most prolific fantasy writers who ever lived…","signature":"a5ggl799FuaKoxDGQXKGqjcQiFPmWUQPuuvSlhDVsGOGOonOvdh4c6RiJToMLmWbxfdSin6RLOHlSMw1m+nrTFfwXzo8MzJLdBK0jErx+k0S/iGFUOR61mNS/dZWSdUu6WKCqfYthmMZTxagkKWiwDWxQKBJRVh37A4q1fcp8t0ZOkK8SskEIGuuj9Ax5r5GtBhSriCu+lMin7k41Obcndy/SXNERN9wYxfn6C9U+ggDOEQp2XbA41oLLZTiE3ToRFWJXxjQLEN5SFyJvFhEyCHA2Jt5zv5iK/uPc1qkg/mXDgFJhSVgwM/mzqyhNZgl3kA/j354K/nFlKGUCx91zg==","canReply":false,"canReact":false,"publishedAt":"2026-09-16T18:05:27.000Z","visibility":"Public","featuredImage":"https://kwln.social/files/file:6aaada66c481a621ed9331a5@kwln.city","myReact":null,"reactCounts":[]}