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06/18/2021 4:41 PM
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Updated 06/18/2021 4:41 PM
The truth may never be known, but
The Beatles: Get Back
, the documentary being finished by
Peter Jackson
(
The Lord of the Rings
) will initially skip the theatrical release to have its exclusive premiere on Disney +.
The premiere date also changed.
It was originally September 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic turned everything upside down, and it was delayed to September of this year.
But it won't be like that either.
Get Back
will be a documentary directed by Peter Jackson taken from the footage of the
1970
film
Let It Be
, and will go from being a film to an original Disney + documentary series, which will air during the Thanksgiving holidays in the United States , in November.
The Beatles and Peter Jackson.
The documentary series premieres in November.
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Obviously no one could convince Jackson not to extend more than he should have, and he ended up with a 6-hour edit.
OK, I had 56 hours of original footage… Jackson spent the last three years reviewing footage, and restoring and editing
The Beatles: Get Back
, which will ultimately be three separate episodes.
Each one will last approximately two hours, and will be seen continuously on November 25, 26 and 27, exclusively on Disney +.
There was already a teaser clip, a sort of five-minute trailer late last year.
The source material is none other than that recorded in January 1969, while the musicians worked on what became the album and feature film
Let It Be
.
"Let It Be", the album recorded by The Beatles between 1968 and 1969, is central to Jackson's work.
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Jackson's affinity, attachment and devotion to restoration is not new.
His last directing job was
Never Will They Get Old
, another World War I documentary built on meticulously restored 100-year-old images.
The same process or technology now took hold with the
Beatles
film
.
In "They Will Never Grow Old", Jackson used an athechnology to restore images, which he now uses again.
Photo WB
This is Peter Jackson
"In many respects, the extraordinary Michael Lindsay-Hogg material captured multiple story lines," Jackson said.
History as friends and as people.
It is the story of human frailties and divine association.
It is a detailed account of the creative process, with the composition of emblematic songs under pressure, amid the social climate of early 1969. But it is not a nostalgic tale: it is raw, honest and human.
For more than six hours, they will get to know the Beatles with an intimacy that they never would have thought possible ”.
The director could not with his genius: what was to be a movie ended up in a series.
Reuters photo
He added: “I am very grateful to the Beatles, Apple Corps and Disney for allowing me to present this story the way it should be told.
I have been immersed in this project for almost three years, and I am very excited that audiences around the world can finally see it. "
That the documentary ceased to be a project to become a real event was announced when the concert was half a century old, that is, on January 30, 2019.
This is Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr, when he released "Here's to the Nights", the first single from his upcoming EP, with Paul McCartney and several guests.
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Recall that
Ringo Starr
, in March of this year, came out with the caps to criticize the original 1970 documentary. The least he said then was that it was "too miserable."
"I did not feel any joy in the original documentary, everything centered on a moment that happened between two of the boys (because of the fights between
McCartney
and
Harrison,
" complained the drummer.
And he anticipated for the most anxious: “The concert on the terrace (on the roof of Apple Corps, in 1969) lasted between seven and eight minutes.
But what Peter Jackson put together we will see that it lasts 43 minutes, and that it is about music and a lot of joy ”.
The iconic "Let It Be" cover art.
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Jackson, it seems, came and went from New Zealand to Los Angeles, across the Pacific, to show Ringo edited material on his iPad.
In other words, Starr implies that not only will he be happy with what opens in November, but that it was he himself who supervised, in some way, the work of the director of
Celestial Creatures
.
Jackson got into the controversy by writing in a statement that he was “relieved to discover that reality is very different from myth.
Sure there are moments of drama, but none of the misunderstandings this project has been associated with are really important or extensive. "
On the roof of Apple, in January 1996. The concert "of discord."
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At least, it won't be in your documentary.
Before, and since everything has to do with everything, Apple Corps Ltd. will launch the book
The Beatles: Get Back
on October 12.
It is a 240-page volume that will complement the documentary with transcripts of the recorded conversations of The Beatles, to which it will add hundreds of exclusive photos never before published from the three weeks of sessions.
Will the collectible book be published in Spanish, since it is announced that it will be published in nine languages?
Hopefully yes, because if not, we will take revenge.
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