The novelty of the digital wizardry had worn out, and all that was left was its flaws.
Barring Monster House, the other motion capture films had a similar budget, which was why they were so heavily advertised, with Mars Needs Moms the only one failing to make that money back and being the final nail in the coffin for ImageMovers Digital. RELATED: Peter Jackson's 'The Beatles: Get Back' Wins Five Creative Arts Emmy AwardsĪ Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms both bombed at the box office, the latter especially being a disaster, only making $39.2 million to its $150 million budget. One could say this was a gritty remake of Yellow Submarine, which is odd enough to write down, let alone imagine actually being made. The Beatles would look more like caricatures than real people, similar to Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin with more exaggerated features and proportions. It apparently would've been a loose adaptation, giving Pepperland a darker, more apocalyptic feel, with nightmarish creatures including more monstrous Blue Meanies.
The concept art and animation that are accessible give us something of an idea of what this film could've been, what it would've looked like. The band's voices were cast, with Dean Lennox Kelly as John Lennon, Peter Serafinowicz as Paul McCartney (a role he was already quite familiar with), Cary Elwes as George Harrison, and Adam Campbell as Ringo Starr, with tribute band The Fab Four being used for the performance capture. This project was announced at Disney's D23 expo in 2009, and it was planned to be a event feature to be released in the summer of 2012, just in time for the London Olympics.
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It is regarded somewhat fondly in hindsight as an oddity of Beatlemania and one of the few 1960s animated feature films outside of Walt Disney, and it was apparently regarded fondly enough by Zemeckis that he wanted to remake it using his studio, ImageMovers, in its trademark full motion capture animation. Despite this, it is not as if Yellow Submarine has no merit, the animation is stylish and colorful and of course there's the iconic music of the Beatles to carry through the film. The Beatles were less than enthusiastic about the second film, Help!, which was far more outlandish, and even less so about their Saturday Morning Cartoon, so they didn't want to offer their own voices to the animated film made by the same people beyond a short cameo at the end.
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Before this point, there had already been two feature films about John, Paul, George, and Ringo, the first of which being A Hard Day's Night, a clever, humorous and beloved movie following a day in the lives of the Beatles (and Paul's grandfather). Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated film as part of a three-film deal by the United Artists Corporation with The Beatles, little needs to be said about who they are. But then someone finds a picture of Nicolas Cage in a Superman suit, or concept sketches for an adaptation of the musical Cats that looks ten times better than the one we got, and you can't help but imagine the alternate universe where these ideas came to fruition. When a work is discarded, it's completely shielded from the eyes of the public, a work that is never produced or finalized is one that should never be seen, no matter how close it was to completion, or how much hard work was put into it. While there are more ghoulish examples of lost media which we can only hope never see the light of day, it can be a way of breaking down a wall that seems impenetrable between executives and audiences. A pilot for an American Sailor Moon that was known to exist was finally captured and posted to YouTube in full, a lost episode of Sesame Street starring The Wizard of Oz's Margaret Hamilton unfortunately considered too frightening for children, and even a full animatic of Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye. Lost media discovery, the art of media archeology where intrepid researchers dig for as much as they can on films, television shows, and animation long abandoned and considered dead, has been given a lot of attention over the past few months over recent discoveries.
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