Robert Zemeckis CGI mocap version of Yellow Submarine is already a failure thanks to the director not casting Justin Long as George Harrison. Seriously, Long’s version of Harrison is uncanny; rumor has it that the actor will be playing Harrison in Let It Be once the 1970 movie finally gets a home video release.
Instead Zemeckis has cast Cary Elwes as Harrison; meanwhile Peter Serafinowicz is playing Paul, Brit actor Dean Lennox Kelly as John, and Adam Campbell – star of Epic Movie – as Ringo. Of course they won’t look like themselves, as they’ll be playing 3D versions of the cartoon Beatles from Yellow Submarine (who, by the way, were not played by the Beatles themselves. The Beatles only appeared in a quick live action segment at the end of the cartoon).
The actors won’t be doing Beatles numbers; Zemeckis has hired Beatles impersonators Fab 4 to do the band’s moves, set to actual recordings of the real Fab Four. There will 16 Beatles songs in the movie.
Oh well.
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Why is this happening? It's the Oscar curse; they give one to Zemeckis for his worst movie (up to that point) and he churns out almost nothing but shit thereafter (see also J. Demme). Someone should make a film about that, it would make about as much sense as 3-D mocapped remake of Yellow Submarine.
What does the title of this piece refer to? You didn't mention Ray Park.
I thought this was going to be about Ray Park. Remember how Macca fought with a staff and did sweet backflips all the time in the original?
Peter Serafinowicz did th evoice of Darth Maul….
Serafinowicz should play ALL of them. Seriously, have you seen him do the voices?? The man's a genius.
"Clever boys"
Fuck Zemeckis and this film. I blame its existence for the fact that there has been no DVD release of the original.
Yes there has. The remastered Yellow Submarine DVD was released about 10 or so years ago. It may be out of stock now but that has nothing to do with Zemeckis.
OldmanHiggins – No.
I own the DVD of Yellow Submarine.
http://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Submarine-George-Dunning-II/dp/B00000JRUQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1263312264&sr=1-1
The Beatles were pretty old when they did "Submarine" -they should re-boot the whole franchise
Ummm..WHAT? A tribute band will be doing the "MOVES" of the Beatles during performances set to actual Beatles soundtrack…what are the Actors hired to play them gonna do? With their look being that of the Beatles, he's literally just hired Mo-Cap ators…even Jim Carrey looked the parts in XMas Carol, but this i silly.
He needs to stop.
I worked with Ray Park on a cheapo independent film once … "Potheads the Movie" (look it up) … good guy. Apparently he's not in this flim though.
What the hell is with Zemeckis and mo cap. The guy tries for years and instantly gets OWNED by Avatar, man must be pissed. Beowulf was pretty awesome though, but is still Avatar'd.
If ever there were a pointless remake – this is it. Why not just use the original audio and re-animate around it, if your so inclined to rehash Yellow Submarine?
He did Darth Maul's voice? You mean for the two lines he had in the movie?
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