Can Hollywood improve on a Beatles classic? Director Robert Zemeckis and Disney evidently hope to do just that with a 3D remake of Yellow Submarine. The 1968 cartoon featured McCartney-Lennon gems including "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "Eleanor Rigby," "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" in a fantasy involving grumpy grownup types called Blue Meanies.
Zemeckis is negotiating with Disney to direct a 3D version of Yellow Submarine, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The motion-capture wizard made Beowulf, Polar Express and the upcoming A Christmas Carol by translating human actors into animated characters. Zemeckis plans do take the same approach with the Beatles reboot, which begs the casting question: Which actor should play Ringo?
We're thinking Demetri Martin. The shaggy-haired comedian stars next week in Taking Woodstock and he's got the period look down cold.
Elsewhere on the '60s revival front, original guitar hero Jimi Hendrix may finally get a shot at the big screen. Thomas Tull, who produced this summer's guitar-slinger documentary It Might Get Loud featuring Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White, is ramping up up for a biopic about the psychedelic rocker, according to Variety. Tull is working to secure music rights from Experience Hendrix, the late guitarist's estate, which turned down earlier movie projects loosely attached to Lenny Kravitz and Outkast leader Andre Benjamin.
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