Robert Zemeckis to remake "Yellow Submarine" for Disney

No.

with merchandising in tow and prospects for spinning off both a Broadway musical and a Cirque du Soleil stage production

but it's only a Northern Song.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MAKE IT STOP.

hopefully it will go to the same Land Of Bad Ideas that the Justin/Britney Barbarella flick crashed.

ugh

Zemeckis plans to use the 3-D performance-capture format he utilized on the upcoming "A Christmas Carol," in which Jim Carrey plays Scrooge as well as the ghosts that haunt him.

DEALFUCKINGBREAKER. The Polar Express and the trailers for A Christmas Carol are creepy as fuck. It's an animation style I'm sure he's proud of, but I hate it.

with Robin Williams as the Nowhere Man

I am going to give a lot of shit to my buddy over at Zemeckis' animation studio for this

I am glad to hear about this! I only like movies if they are the same as something I've seen before. Also, there are still too many television shows with actors in them.

Though the Beatles broke up in 1970, interest in their music has remained high

thanks for the sum-up, Variety

The rights revert back to PMac et al in 2013.

Handy, that.

Mike Myers will do all the voices and they will all be the same voice.

^^this is probably going to happen

Or maybe this will be Peter Serafinowicz's big H'wood break. Or me and a couple of McGanns for the cheap option.

Hooray for wooden stakes into black hearts

The Walt Disney Co. has deep-sixed Mars Needs Moms producer Robert Zemeckis’ planned next project for the studio, the high-profile remake of the classic Beatles film Yellow Submarine, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Submarine was already facing a few rocky reefs before this weekend. There were budget issues, and a key presentation Zemeckis was to have made before the Beatles heirs kept being pushed back. A December date for the confab was scrapped and never rescheduled. But sources say the disastrous $6.9 million opening for the $150 million-budgeted Mars, produced by Zemeckis, guaranteed that Submarine would never set sail at Disney. The producer-director is now free to shop the project to another studio.

Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director of Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Cast Away, generated big headlines in August 2009 when he first set up the remake of the 1968 animated feature based on music by the Beatles. THR then revealed in January 2010 that the Fab Four would be played by Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell.

The plan was to use 16 Beatles songs in the film, which was to employ cutting-edge motion-capture technology similar to Zemeckis’ Beowulf, A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms. Zemeckis secured the cooperation of Apple Corps, which controls the rights to the rock group’s library. (Its movie arm, Apple Films, was one of the companies behind the original pic.)

But in the wake of the box-office disapointment of 2009’s Carol, and with other animated movies pushing the envelope in terms of aesthetics, there were also concerns within Disney about the look of motion capture, especially the way human characters are depicted. (“Creepy” is the word often used.) Those same concerns, insiders say, led to Disney shutting down Zemeckis’ ImageMovers studio in May 2010.

Now this weekend’s opening of Mars sealed Submarine’s fate, and the movie is not going forward at Disney.

According to sources, Zemeckis left town over the weekend, flying to Montana to regroup. He is said to be eyeing a live-action project to direct. But part of the regrouping process could include finding a new home for Submarine.

Here's hoping it stays dead.

i don't think the idea of doing this is wrong at all, but zemeckis is clearly the wrong person to do it. they're right, his stuff does look creepy.