BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'

Subject: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 11:53 AM

All Aboard! 'Yellow Submarine' Remake in the Works
The New York Times
August 20, 2009, 10:29 am
By Dave Itzkoff

More than 40 years after Old Fred fired up the titular vehicle of "Yellow Submarine" and used it to round up four Liverpool lads who would defend Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, Disney is preparing a remake of the Beatles' 1968 animated movie, Variety reported.

The original film was a traditional (if thoroughly trippy) 2-D cartoon directed by George Dunning and designed by Heinz Edelmann, in which the Beatles appeared only in a live-action segment tacked on at the end. The planned remake, to be directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Forrest Gump," "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"), will be a 3-D animated feature that would use the performance-capture technology seen in Mr. Zemeckis's "Beowulf" and his coming remake of "A Christmas Carol."

The Variety report said that Disney was still seeking to obtain rights to the Beatles songs used in the original "Yellow Submarine" film, including the title song and tracks like "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The remake is being planned for a 2012 release.

No casting was announced for the motion-capture remake, though the project does call to mind Paul McCartney's recent remarks to Daniel Radosh in The New York Times Magazine: "In 10 years' time you'll be standing there, and you will be Paul McCartney. You know that, don't you?"

The original trailer

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I guess there's just nothing new under the sun (at least, that Hollywood can find, sometimes).

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 11:59 AM

But on the brighter side, Welsh town overturns Life of Brian ban.

~ B in T

Subject: RE: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 12:43 PM

3-D? In 1968, we didn't need no steenkin' 3-D! We made our own 3-D, man!

Subject: RE: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Peace
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 04:31 PM

News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'






"George W Bush Elected"

Subject: RE: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Amos
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 04:58 PM

HEy, back in the Sixties we not only made our own 3-dimensional pictures, we also made our own 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th dimensional ones. I can't remember any of them, but I am sure we did.


A

Subject: RE: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Peace
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 04:59 PM

Oh, yeah . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 08:50 PM

From the Life of Brian note:

"Python members Terry Jones (who directed the film) and Michael Palin (who played Pontius Pilate) are both expected to attend the screening at the invitation of Aberystwyth's mayor, Sue Jones-Davies, who also appeared in the film."

= "the meek shall inherit the earth"?

or is that just a case of outliving the bastards?

It is a funny old world, ennit... sometimes bad funny, sometimes good funny.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: News items that make you ask, 'Why?!?'
From: Stringsinger
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 11:51 AM

Bush elected? Easy answer.

Wonkocrats.