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New Beatles Musical from the Creator of Broadway's The Lion King
09/10/07 | by sammymaudlin
UPDATE WITH ACTUAL TRAILER BELOW THE FOLD
Follow up:
Actual trailer:
I've seen this trailer before but had no idea that it was all Beatles music. What can RTH do about this? I think we need to take some sort of stand or at least an official position paper...
13 comments
Comment from: Oats [Member]
The New York Times' website has an actual clip from the film of a moustachioed Bono singing "I am the Walrus." It is AWFUL. There is no way Across the Universe will be anything less than a giant, fiery, bloody wreck. I anticipate an obnoxiously garish, rose-tinted view of the Summer of Looooooovvvve, sort of what a modern-day Jann Wenner acid trip would be like.
On the other hand, look at the clips of the Dylan flick, I'm Not There. Yeah, it may blow (Velvet Goldmine sure did) but at least it looks like Todd Haynes has an actual idea! and it actually relates to what Bob Dylan's music actually was.
This much is clear -- the people who run Dylan's office generally know what they're doing and have an idea of how a legacy works.. The same cannot be said for the idiots running Apple Corps.
On the other hand, look at the clips of the Dylan flick, I'm Not There. Yeah, it may blow (Velvet Goldmine sure did) but at least it looks like Todd Haynes has an actual idea! and it actually relates to what Bob Dylan's music actually was.
This much is clear -- the people who run Dylan's office generally know what they're doing and have an idea of how a legacy works.. The same cannot be said for the idiots running Apple Corps.
09/10/07 @ 18:39
Comment from: Oats [Member]
What can RTH do about this? I think we need to take some sort of stand or at least an official position paper...
how about we set up a Beatles fan website called makeitstop.com, petitioning whoever's running the show, as it were, to simply stop. No more Vegas revues, movies, or MOJO cover stories. We could implore people that rather than take part in these and other follies, they should just listen to, hey, why not one of the albums The Beatles released in their time? They're actually pretty good!
09/10/07 @ 20:23
Comment from: Oats [Member]
Well, maybe letitbe.com is more apropos, though doesn't quite have the desperate, pleaing flavor of makeitstop.com
09/10/07 @ 21:20
Comment from: hrrundivbakshi [Member] 
Oats suggests:
how about we set up a Beatles fan website called makeitstop.com, petitioning whoever's running the show, as it were, to simply stop. No more Vegas revues, movies, or MOJO cover stories. We could implore people that rather than take part in these and other follies, they should just listen to, hey, why not one of the albums The Beatles released in their time? They're actually pretty good!
I respond:
The day you and others finally refrain from rising to the latest RTH Beatle-members-as-breakfast-cereal thread is the day I'll take this idea seriously.
how about we set up a Beatles fan website called makeitstop.com, petitioning whoever's running the show, as it were, to simply stop. No more Vegas revues, movies, or MOJO cover stories. We could implore people that rather than take part in these and other follies, they should just listen to, hey, why not one of the albums The Beatles released in their time? They're actually pretty good!
I respond:
The day you and others finally refrain from rising to the latest RTH Beatle-members-as-breakfast-cereal thread is the day I'll take this idea seriously.
09/10/07 @ 23:13
Comment from: Oats [Member]
The day you and others finally refrain from rising to the latest RTH Beatle-members-as-breakfast-cereal thread is the day I'll take this idea seriously.
Would you prefer a ZZ Top-as-breakfast-cereal thread? Gross!
09/10/07 @ 23:51
Comment from: Mr. Moderator [Member]
You know how the director is tackling the shocking issue of homosexuality in the scene involving "I Want to Hold Your Hand"? That's just the tip of the iceberg. In another scene, "Can't Buy Me Love" is sung by a middle-aged businessman to a 13-year-old prostitute. "It's not for us to dictate the meaning of the Beatles' music," says the director.
09/11/07 @ 07:39
Comment from: Mr. Moderator [Member]
Oh, THAT trailer! My 10-year-old son and I saw it before Spiderman 3 this summer, he called BS on it.
I do hope the Penny Lane character from Almost Famous makes an appearance!
I do hope the Penny Lane character from Almost Famous makes an appearance!
09/11/07 @ 07:42
Comment from: alexmagic [Member]
I wish this movie was a person so I coul fight it.
09/11/07 @ 07:51
Comment from: hrrundivbakshi [Member]
I think the moment where the preview makes the movie's hackneyed, manipulative, unoriginal intentions clear is when that chick does a Lipton ice tea backwards into the swimming pool. Pathetic. John must be spinning in his grave.
I take it back. We *should* launch an online petition site as Oats suggests. This has gone on long enough.
I take it back. We *should* launch an online petition site as Oats suggests. This has gone on long enough.
09/11/07 @ 08:24
Comment from: alexmagic [Member]
ZZ Top would be Shredded Wheat, wouldn’t they? Seems like a given to me, if just from a visual standpoint.
09/11/07 @ 10:35
Oats wrote:
"This much is clear -- the people who run Dylan's office generally know what they're doing and have an idea of how a legacy works.. The same cannot be said for the idiots running Apple Corps."
Does the RTH Labs have any statistical research compiled on rock legacies? I'd like to see some pie charts, or at least some bar graphs. Maybe we could work up a flow chart for how legacies operate so we can finally begin to run some diagnostics.
"This much is clear -- the people who run Dylan's office generally know what they're doing and have an idea of how a legacy works.. The same cannot be said for the idiots running Apple Corps."
Does the RTH Labs have any statistical research compiled on rock legacies? I'd like to see some pie charts, or at least some bar graphs. Maybe we could work up a flow chart for how legacies operate so we can finally begin to run some diagnostics.
09/11/07 @ 12:01
I'd be happy if old music would stay old music and old movies would stay old movies and old TV shows would stay old TV shows. But apparently everyone else would rather keep seeing a movie or buying an album and saying, wasn't it great 25 years ago? Didn't that movie reinforce that just perfectly?
09/11/07 @ 13:59
Comment from: michael k [Member]
I'm all for calling a moratorium on these "new" Beatles-related projects, but please don't stop the MOJO cover stories. I like 'em!
09/11/07 @ 14:44
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