Film Rights to First & Second Age

[William Cloud Hicklin]

"Ethics" and "Saul Zaentz" I never thought to see in the same sentence.....

"Zaentz can't dance but he'll steal your money.."
--CCR

Poor baby- parlayed a $20k investment into a quarter-billion free and clear without actually creating a bloody thing.


He spent his 20 grand on spec- it was a shrewd investment. But investment carries the possibility of both profit and loss. That's the way it works.

And you want to complain it's 'unethical' for the author and his family to publish the work he spent sixty years creating, just because Zaentz bought film rights to a footnote????