Newswire Today in puzzling remake news: Robert Zemeckis to remake Yellow Submarine 

by Nathan Rabin August 20, 2009

In profoundly puzzling remake news, Variety reports  that Robert Zemeckis will be remaking kiddie stoner favorite Yellow Submarine using that creepy 3-D motion-capture technology he's so enamored of. The remake has apparently been in the works for a long time, with Zemeckis' army of lawyers negotiating with The Beatles' battalion of bewigged barristers for the rights to sixteen Beatles tunes for the remake and a proposed Broadway adaptation of the remake of an animated film adapting the classic Beatles song. Got it? 

The whole project feels a little sketch but then so did the original, a Beatles musical in which the Beatles didn't even bother providing the voices for their animated selves. It's hard to lose money with The Beatles, a quartet of lovable mop tops from Liverpool renowned for their tight pants and infectious ditties, so the film makes a whole lot of sense commercially, if not artistically. We are, as always, cautiously optimistic. 

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