Owned by Jagger.

In the new documentary “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,” creator Richard O’Brien revealed that Mick Jagger and his team tried to buy the film rights to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” after the stage show made its US debut in 1974.

But director Jim Sharman advised that they shouldn’t go for Jagger’s deal, and with producer Lou Adler’s help, they created the film without a big name attached. 8

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“One of the great things about this is that we were a fringe theater event, and we were allowed to make a movie,” O’Brien, 83, said in the doc, according to People .

“Not only that, but Jim was allowed to direct it. Not only that, but Brian Thompson was allowed to be the artistic director. Not only that, but Tim [Curry] was allowed to play the lead role,” t

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