Action stations! Action stations! Aye, sir, aye.
I know The Beatles were hot in 2009 with the remastered catalogue and the Rock Star game, but Disney most have known the massive risk they were taking.CREDITS In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines So we sailed on to the sun Till we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our Yellow Submarine We all live in a Yellow Submarine Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine We all live in a Yellow Submarine Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine And our friends are all aboard Many more of them live next door And the band begins to play We all live in a Yellow Submarine Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine … Full speed ahead, Mr. Judging by the look of the monsters, parents with young children would have stayed away in droves. Films about The Beatles tend to be low budget, low risk, indie dramas, the only massive big budget Beatles film up to that point was Across The Universe, and that was a commercial bomb when released.
I’m also not sure who the audience of this would have even been? Beatles fans aren’t big enough for what would have been a $200-$300 million production. The you have the issue that your showing the audience uncanny valley representations of the two main leads that are deceased! I’m sure the press would have had a field day with that. Giving the Yellow Submarine the hard look of Zemeckis’ other features was too much for me when compared to the softer look of the original. But then I remembered that I liked it because it was traditional animation/illustrations. Recently, Beatles footage has been found syncing audio from the final scene from the original 1968 film.Ĭlick to expand.I like what I saw of the storyboards and even thought “hey, this could’ve been alright”. Since it’s cancelation, test footage and art has leaked online of what could have been. The hardest thing for a filmmaker as he’s aging is saying, “How much more of this crap can I take?” It’s tough, I can only do it if I have a script to believe in. With the current state of the industry, it’s difficult to stay passionate about it. But it’s probably better not to be remade – you’re always behind the 8-ball when you do a remake.
īy 2012, Zemeckis had no interest in remaking the film, saying: "That would have been a great one to bring the Beatles back to life. Disney let Zemeckis bring the film to other studios, which led to Imagemovers Digital final project being a look-dev test for the film, also directed by Robert Zemeckis. In May 2010, Disney shut down Imagemovers Digital after the unsatisfactory results of A Christmas Carol, and cancelled the project in 2011 after Mars Needs Moms bombed. The film was slated to be released in the Summer of 2012, in time for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. In 2009, Disney, Apple Corps, and Imagemovers Digital announced a motion-captured remake of the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine at the D23 Expo. Yellow Submarine (partially found cancelled CGI remake of animated film 2010-2011) - The Lost Media Wiki More footage has leaked from Disney’s famous/infamous remake/reboot of Yellow Submarine.