Walt Disney Pictures and the formerly-talented Robert Zemeckis are planning on a remake of the 1968 Beatles animated classic "Yellow Submarine". According to Variety.com, the studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D digital production format he employed for his upcoming Jim Carrey-starring remake of “A Christmas Carol.” The hope is to have "Yellow Submarine" ready to premiere around the 2012 Summer Olympics, which begins July 27 in London.The question that comes to mind here is why the hell remake this? If they are using motion capture, who will play the Beatles? Knowing Disney, they'll recruit one of their Stepford Tween Bands like the Jonas Brothers (casting hint: get Yoko Ono to play the looney furball Jeremy Hillary Boob) and have them do covers of the soundtrack (my skin is crawling as I type this). I have a better idea for Disney and Hackmaster Flash Zemeckis: why not take the original, clean up the negative, remaster it for Digital 3-D and release that to theaters worldwide? I guarantee you that it would cost a fraction of what Zemeckis and the Mouse House will spend on this remake. And given Zemeckis' track record post-Cast Away, a reissue of the original will certainly be a better film to watch.
Sigh. I wish this was "All in the mind, y'know." But it's just another case of Hollywood being creatively bankrupt.
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