An off-topic comment I found on a blog: "Re: Lord of Light, there was an effort in the late 1970s during the post Star Wars sci fi boom to get a film version going, but financing fell apart. You can see some cool concept sketches done by Jack Kirby (yes, that Jack Kirby) at lordoflight.com. An interesting footnote to the saga is that the CIA picked up the script and production art and used it as cover for a secret operation in 1979 to smuggle American diplomats out of Iran by posing as studio executives scouting locations for the Lord of Light movie. Seriously." http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_12/005386.php