It's "all together now" for the cast of Robert Zemeckis' upcoming Beatles feature.

Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in negotiations to portray the members of the band in "Yellow Submarine," which the director is remaking for Disney.

The original 1968 animated movie was based on the music by the Beatles and featured a storyline wherein a soldier called Old Fred meets up with the Beatles and travels in a yellow submersible to Pepperland. Among the group's encounters are the music-hating Blue Meanies.

As with his recently released "A Christmas Carol," Zemeckis is making the movie using 3D performance-capture technology. The helmer, who also wrote the screenplay, is producing with his Imagemovers Digital partners Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey.

The Beatles tribute band Fab 4 will be motion-captured as the ensemble for the musical performance sequences though -- since actual Beatles music will be utilized (licensed from Sony/ATV and EMI-Capitol Records) -- they won't actually be performing the 16 songs used in the movie.

Kelly, a British actor who is currently on the BBC's "Robin Hood" series, is portraying John Lennon.

Serafinowicz, repped by UTA and Troika in the U.K. and Principato/Young, appeared in "Shaun of the Dead" and in "Couples Retreat." He plays Paul McCartney.

Elwes, who worked with Zemeckis on "A Christmas Carol" and is in the upcoming "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn," will play George Harrison. Elwes is repped by APA and Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Entertainment.

Campbell will be Ringo Starr. His credits include "Epic Movie" and "Date Movie," and he will be seen on NBC's miniseries "Day One." He is repped by ICM and United Agents in the U.K.

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/01/beatles-yellow-submarine-robert-zemeckis-3d-performance-capture-cary-elwes.html

Why are they remaking a Beatles classic? What's next? A Hard Day's Night? :mad:

Why are they remaking a Beatles classic? What's next? A Hard Day's Night? :mad:
Hey if they'll remake Mannequin (and apparently they are!) they'll remake anything! (even the Beatles). But heaven help them if they ever try to remake a Bogie film!! I will so not stand for that!!!!!

In the next couple of years, we're also supposed to see remakes of Bonnie and Clyde, The Dirty Dozen and My Fair Lady. BOOOOOOOOOOOO...:mad: :mad: :mad:

In the next couple of years, we're also supposed to see remakes of Bonnie and Clyde, The Dirty Dozen and My Fair Lady. BOOOOOOOOOOOO...:mad: :mad: :mad:
Noooooooooooooooooooo!!! Stay away from the classics! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo. Now I'm going to have the darn song stuck in my head.:mad::shakes fist at producers:

Furthur proof Hollywood has run out of ideas ohno:

Furthur proof Hollywood has run out of ideas ohno:
Isn't that the truth. :mad:

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.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/disney-kills-robert-zemeckis-yellow-167415?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fpopeater+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Popeater+Feed%29

Good, we're safe for the moment.:D

With the Box-Office Failure of "Mars Needs Moms" may result in another Zemeckis film to NOT be released...the remake of The Beatles "Yellow Submarine"!

GOOD!!!! :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap

One word: good!

In the next couple of years, we're also supposed to see remakes of Bonnie and Clyde, The Dirty Dozen and My Fair Lady. BOOOOOOOOOOOO...:mad: :mad: :mad:

It's not as if My Fair Lady is original, when it was released it was already the umpteenth screen version of Pygmalion.