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Peter Jackson's Beatles film gets preview

 

Thanks ! This forum is just too big..

 

Of course a Let It Be anniversary box set will not happen.
Sgt. Pepper, the White Album and Abbey Road also did not get that treatment.

 

Something is happening here but you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. andrewskyDE?

 

Maybe we'll get to see this clip on the 1 year anniversary of the project's announcement???

 

Perhaps there will 2 Beatles Box sets this year: Let It Be super deluxe set in May then a 2nd Box set in Oct to accompany the Peter Jackson film. That would be a dream !!

 

With this news of the preview just in, I'll venture to offer the definitive prediction:
In order not to distract from the new film, a 58th Anniversary boxed set of 'Love Me Do' will be released in October to draw fire from Beatles extremists.

 

DIRECTOR PETER JACKSON PREVIEWED A FEW MINUTES OF HIS UPCOMING LET IT BE FILM OVER THE WEEKEND – Beatles Magazine

 

New Beatles Movie Aims to 'Bust the Myth' of 'Let It Be' Sessions

 

What's interesting about the preview is that nobody appears to have attended it!
I was expecting some write-ups from those who had eyes on it but it's sounding like this preview was on the schedule but in a back-room.
I'd reckon that there's a certain 'playing for time' element going on in post-production?
Also, I'm now thinking that as there's no info at large on this film being booked into theatres, that the actual release date hasn't yet been confirmed?

 

Unfortunately they never really got a good take of I Me Mine in 1969 (and never really tried, either). Even the final version seems rushed. George had a whole year and never bothered to write another verse?

 

There's an air of mystery about the whole project despite the common knowledge that Jackson's been working on it for a fair time. eg no real confirmed date of release for the film that I've read. Likewise the album/box set.

All I'm really hoping for is a cinema release.

 

Mouths are shut, this is the big Beatles project for 2020. I don’t think this is strange at all.
But this private preview appears to be the proverbial break in the dam.

Let’s see if a press statement comes in 24 hours.

In any case, the movie is ready to go.

 

From the link:
“An amazing counter-narrative to [the] Let It Be film has ensued... It’s brighter both visually and spiritually, with many, many shots of the Beatles joking around, making fun of each other, singing in silly accents and generally indulging in vintage mop-top hijinks..."

My inside sources have confirmed that the Peter Jackson film will contain 90 minutes of newly restored footage of the Beatles singing snippets of songs in German accents, Jamaican accents, French accents, Spanish accents, Chinese accents, upper-crust British accents, Cockney accents, Liverpudlian accents, and Swedish accents. ...

 

We’ll take everything, even a banana from Bongo.

 

and to keep that coherence, the movie will be called "Get Raus!"

 

Well, that would be the (sub)title for the German release.

 

Secretely they have been recording all their singles also in German, so after sie liebt dich and gib mir deine hand we can look forward to Kommt Zusammen and Etwas!

 

Maybe. But who knows what more is on the tapes.

 

To be fair to George...the only reason they recorded it all all was because it was going to be shown in the movie. (Hogg version). He may never have revisited it.

Bern

 

That's true.
Maybe it would have been released then on ALL THINGS MUST PASS.

 

It is unlikely there is all that much more than the close to 100 hrs of audio that many of us have listened to.

I feel there are a couple quite good versions of IMM, though without the 4/4 section Paul came up with later.

 

Am I right that only 90 hours of the sessions exist on bootlegs (e. g. A/B Road)?
Peter Jackson has 140 hours of audio tapes.
So there are 50 hours of unbootleged material.

 

You misunderstand I believe. There were two recorders, for the "A" and "B" cams (hence "A/B Road"). For most of the time both recorders were running, capturing the same thing, but they staggered the reel switches so as not to miss anything. The 90 hr A/B set eliminates all the overlapping portions. Jackson most likely has 70 hrs of A tapes and 70 hrs of B tapes with lots of overlap between them - so essentially what we got - unless by chance some tapes were kept aside from the collection that leaked. I am guessing the tape of the conversation after George quit is one such tape, though who knows whether they gave it to Jackson.

There's no way there are close to 50 hrs unaccounted for. You usually hear them arriving and leaving and a whole lot of work and bs-ing in between.

 

So, tomorrow is the anniversary, let's wait for good news