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sindri42:

tilthat:

TIL that after studios refused, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was instead financed by the rock stars Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull and Elton John who all saw it as simply ‘a good tax write-off".

via reddit.com

Damn they should have used that in promotional materials. Like where normal movies put a couple words from some critic to trick you into thinking it’s worth watching, they could just put “a good tax write-off” -Led Zeppelin

It gets even better with the next Python film, though: The Life Of Brian was rejected everywhere because of its allegedly ‘blasphemous’ content. Ex-Beatle George Harrison - whose career and finances were not in the best shape at the time - read the script, liked it, said “you know what? I’d really like to watch this movie” and promptly mortgaged his house to raise the 4 million needed to make the film.

Still, to this day, the most expensive cinema ticket ever bought.