They said they had a better idea: An animated film that was to feature the music of the Rolling Stones.
Titled, “Ruby Tuesday,” the duo had written the song before the writer’s strike and work on the film was apparently supposed to start next month. Like all animation however, the duo said they “hope that [the film] will get made in the next couple of years.”
“It is going to be CGI. It will be interesting. The animation is actually going to be done in Paris. It will be some pretty hip animation. It is amazing how many French animators work at Dreamworks. When we were doing “Flushed Away,” we were over there. It was like a foreign campus.”
This is actually old news. Mick Jagger signed on to co-produce this back in 2006, so that tells you the Stones are onboard and liscensing won’t be a problem. Filmmakers Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi were to direct the “faustian” tale concerning a single mother searching for happiness in New York City. The original “Ruby Tuesday” song itself was allegedly about a free-spirited and possibly tragic groupie that Keith Richards knew (though according to lore Brian Jones wrote most of the song). Whether that single mom will be that groupie is unknown, but tragic and faustian seem to go hand and hand, plus the writers said while it won’t be R-Rated and would not be a “kiddy film” (via Slashfilm).