Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Look, I love Robert Zemeckis' flicks and it's kind of appropriate that he tackle another Beatles film since his first real calling card as a director was the Beatlemania flick I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND, but YELLOW SUBMARINE is very, very dear to me.
I love the animation style, the biting satire and just plain weirdness of the original animated movie and I worry that remaking it will lose one of those key elements that made the original work so well.
So, I'm a bit nervous. Disney and Zemeckis are quietly closing a deal on the remake which will have Zemeckis doing his performance capture thing in recreating the Blue Meanies' invasion of Pepperland... in 3-D.
My skittishness aside, if Zemeckis can bring all the weirdness over and bring some new ingredients to make a new, improved tasty dish then this could be a brilliant move. It's tricky stuff is all I'm saying. I mean, as weird and trippy and surface level as the original cartoon movie appears to be, my heart still breaks for Jeremy Hilary Boob during the Nowhere Man number.
Mike Fleming's blog at Variety, where the story broke, mentions a team of lawyers surrounding this deal, including a post-film staging on Broadway. The hope is to have the film ready to premiere 2012... hopefully before we all fall into the ocean like the Mayans and Roland Emmerich predict.
My last words on this... Robert Zemeckis, sir... if you're going to do this and bring your A Game and make this worthy or the original... please incorporate the original closing footage of the movie. I know that sounds like a distraction in the making, but since you can't recreate the original Fab Four throwing us out to All Together Now in live action I think it'd be a nice nod to them and their fans.
Thems my thoughts. Yours?
-Quint
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