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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?
(So far there is no mention of the Jonas Brothers)
I can tell this is gonna be bad.
First of all, it’s from Disney. I just hope they won’t let some stupid so-called talented Jonas bros or Zac Efron or Miley Cyrus ruin it.
Second, why don’t they just re-release it instead of making some 3-D remake. Originality is always the best. Most remakes are pretty bad.
This film was really awesome and way ahead of it’s time, a pure classic.
By making a remake, it has less chance of todays younger generation of seeing the original.
C’mon Disney, what have you let yourselves into?
Wow…
Ouch…
Can’t beat the classics.
If you can’t beat it don’t copy it.
please answer this? I hate nagging but I’d love as many opinions as possible.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApoxnJ3N.NvekVOEmCXp6iDsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090819161213AAVx4JV
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Wow! This would be amazing! Especially in 3D!!! I hope it happens. I actually saw a preview for "A Christmas Carol" in IMAX 3D and it looks like a great movie.
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I guess this shouldn’t be surprising seeing that Hollywood has been unable to produce anything original in years.
I’ll wait until it’s out on video and put it in my Netflix queue.
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I hope it blows up in Disney’s face as this centuries worst remake of all time, and of course staring NO MAS JONAS Bras, Miley Virus and whoever else has signed with Disney as a recording fartist…
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ehhhh. i’m sick of 3D.
i’ll keep my eyes on the princess & the frog instead, thanks.
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They can’t do that! They’ll completely ruin the movie!
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I hope they use Jonas Bros so then it can be even more of a failed attempt to gain money.
Riki I am a very firm believer that todays music is scattered with greatness… just so happens it is dominate by epic failness…
I think so musicians have the potential to really stamp their authority on music like previous musicians have… but I believe they just aren’t going to be recognised because they are not what sells…
Look at Conor Oberst, he clearly does not get the acknowledgment he deserves and never will cause his music is ‘different’. He will die and that will be the end of him… sad isn’t it
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Oh…… that’s……. interesting…. I don’t know how I feel about that. I think that some playoffs of The Beatles, like Across the Universe, was good, but to REMAKE Yellow Submarine…. I don’t think it’ll go over so well.
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I say "bah" to remakes….
In answer to your last paragraph, I’ve always felt that the "classic" acts of the past have the unfair advantage of being from the past. We’ve had ample opportunity to compare and contrast, decipher, analyze and what not everything they’ve put out. We simply haven’t had that luxury with modern bands. Surely there are modern acts that will stand the test of time the way their predecessors have, but we won’t know for certain for quite some time.
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apparently Disney has run out of ideas and now must do remakes… WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? I’m so disappointed *sobs*
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stupid Disney!!!!!
I curse you and your new generation of posers *cries*
definitely anti remakes!!!!!
It’s Yellow Submarine. It’s no sort of brilliant movie.
Older bands are more guaranteed to sell, and keep selling. They also have more material. It’s less risky.
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Eh,…..
There are a lot of remakes that I have enjoyed. I almost think of them as totally different movies.
All I can say is that the classics eventually get remade, and it is not necessarily a bad thing because it draws in a whole new generation that would not have grocked the original the way people did when it first came out. It keeps the original alive, it shows the timelessness of it and is a testament to its importance in social culture.
So long as they do it justice, I’m fine with it.
I think a lot of young people who see the remakes first end up seeking out originals, if it is something they like; which is not a bad thing.
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Please, oh please God, no!
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Why don’t they just re-release the old one? I’d LOVE to see it on the big screen! With SURROUND SOUND!
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I can tell this is gonna be bad.
First of all, it’s from Disney. I just hope they won’t let some stupid so-called talented Jonas bros or Zac Efron or Miley Cyrus ruin it.
Second, why don’t they just re-release it instead of making some 3-D remake. Originality is always the best. Most remakes are pretty bad.
This film was really awesome and way ahead of it’s time, a pure classic.
By making a remake, it has less chance of todays younger generation of seeing the original.
C’mon Disney, what have you let yourselves into?
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My views.
Walt, John, and George are rolling in their graves.
While on the other hand, we may be in store for another ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ type of film flop…here’s a few scenes from this late 70′s cinematic interpretation of The Beatles music…
Theme w/Peter Frampton & The Bee Gee’s;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIitRpRE5kA&feature=related
Billy Preston – Get Back;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae3l9dF2UNw&feature=fvw
Maxwells Silver Hammer (Steve Martin);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z705FUkVXE&feature=related
Robin Gibb – Oh! Darling;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E28jPGAcLOk&feature=related
Though it contained a cast of thousands…Billy Preston, The Bee Gee’s, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Steve Martin etc…it was still an awful movie.
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the original wasnt all that great really…to be terribly honest.
i hate to see disney doing anything…and this doesnt change my mind.
ill not pay to see it and i always wish for failure for that corporation.
*on a side note…my kid took the miley montana shirt that her granny bought her back to wal-mart because she "refuses to support miley cyrus’s trash"…i was so proud!
now playing: the landing beacon – buckethead
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(So far there is no mention of the Jonas Brothers) – First and foremost, Thank the Heavens for that!!!!
I am not familiar enough with the current corporate structure and which of the entities are involved to comment reasonably on the financial aspects of this, although I do not think it will do well based on my gut feeling. There are occasions when a loss for one entity will result in a windfall for another, so who knows? All depends.
Why are films and games like "Rock Band" successful in reaching into decades-old bands for songs that can be sold to young audiences? I think that part of this is because the music is familiar to the young audiences because their parents and other adults have exposed them to it, as well the use of these songs in commercials and other advertising. Also because the ideas expressed in the music do not change, only the way in which they are expressed.
Is there another Beatles, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen or U2 on the horizon? Of course there is! Who they, I really don’t know though….
Great question, made me think a lot deeper tonight!
Candy
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