Yellow Submarine remake

[Batty]

Why am I not surprised?

https://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/Disney-Zemeckis-board-Yellow-Submarine.html?nid=2854

Disney and director Robert Zemeckis are negotiating to remake “Yellow Submarine,” the 1968 psychedelic animated film based on the music of The Beatles.

The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D digital production format he employed for “A Christmas Carol.” Disney opens that film November 6, with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge as well as the three ghosts who haunt him in the Charles Dickens tale.

The hope is to have "Yellow Submarine" ready to premiere around the 2012 Summer Olympics, which begins July 27 in London.

Disney would not comment on the negotiations or the project. Zemeckis’s ImageMovers would produce.

The deal marries cutting-edge 3-D feature technology with a surging reinterest in The Beatles, who appeared only in the film’s closing scene. Actors provided the voices for the animated characters of Beatles Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

The storyline of the original took place in Pepperland, an undersea paradise protected by Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. When the band is captured by the music-hating Blue Meanies, a soldier is sent to Liverpool to fetch the Fab Four, who hop in the submarine and save the day.

Key to the deal is Zemeckis’ ability to use a treasure trove of classic Beatles tunes, from the title song to “All Together Now,” “Baby You’re a Rich Man,” “All You Need Is Love,” “When I’m 64,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

The deal has been months in the making with armies of lawyers and sources said that rights will encompass the future prospects of a Broadway stage musical -- much as Disney accomplished with “The Lion King,” a Cirque du Soleil stage production (“Love,” a production based on Beatles tunes, has been running for two years at The Mirage) and merchandise.

“Yellow Submarine” is just the latest in a flurry of pacts for The Beatles. September will be a big month for the band that broke up in 1970, with the release of a flurry of remastered records and the vidgame “The Beatles: Rock Band.”

Disney's talks follow the astounding $60 million deal that Sony made to turn the rehearsal footage for the final Michael Jackson concerts into a feature film.

Why are films and games like "Rock Band" successful in reaching into decades-old bands for songs that can be sold to young audiences? My personal musical tastes are stamped from the 1970s to the mid-1980s, but I would argue that there is very little contemporary competition for the classic acts of yesterday. Is there another Beatles, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen or U2 on the horizon?

 

[pixletwin]

I think its a great idea!

 

[EVILFACE]

Well, they might make it good this time around.

 

[GrueSam]

Well, they might make it good this time around.

I really like the orig.

 

[Batty]

I think its a great idea!

Yeah, but you like the 'Love" album.

 

[pixletwin]

Yeah. So?

 

[iron.jedi83]

Yeah, but you like the 'Love" album.

theres nothing wrong with the "love" album i wish i could go to the mirage and actually see the show.

never saw the original so i would check this one out if it comes true

 

[GrueSam]

theres nothing wrong with the "love" album i wish i could go to the mirage and actually see the show.

The show is INSANELY great!

 

[iron.jedi83]

The show is INSANELY great!

now i really want to go see it cause i heard nothing but good things about the show

 

[Batty]

I'm not a big fan of "Love." It's a good technical remix/mash-up album, but it doesn't do anything for me. I have a feeling the remake of Yellow Submarine will be like that.

 

[Darthrazz]

I like it! Maybe they'll actually use the voices of Sir Paul and Ringo! Wow after all the years ....the Beatles are as popular as ever! The footage of the Beatles at the end MUST be included.

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

i hate this idea. unless you're putting the original on bluray leave this title alone. what's next digging up the dead members so that they can be reanimated in glorious 3-d singing reworked versions of the original songs?

 

[Reinhardt]

I now have the song in my head...

 

[agen_kolar]

I've never been a Beatles fan. I liked the covers done in Across the Universe ten times more than the original versions. I watched Yellow Submarine with a friend who loves The Beatles several years ago, and "eh" was my reaction.

 

[galactiboy]

This will suck

 

[Darthrazz]

This will suck

I think you mean "Thi$ will $uck"