Disney Plus to let you spend Thanksgiving with Peter Jackson and The Beatles
Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back will be released in three installments over the Thanksgiving weekend
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Everyone will probably be excited to see family this Thanksgiving, since 2020 hopefully reminded us all of the importance of treasuring the time you get to spend with loved ones, but we all know that treasuring the time you get to spend with loved ones isn’t always… super engaging. While you wait for the food to cook or when you’re too full to have conversations, you need to have something else going on—preferably something with a general appeal that nobody should have any real objections to. Well, Disney+ and Peter Jackson have already solved that problem for you this year, with Disney announcing today that Jackson’s documentary series The Beatles: Get Back will premiere on Disney+ across the three days of the long Thanksgiving weekend (specifically November 25, 26, and 27).
A press release from Disney says each episode of Get Back is “approximately two hours in length,” and they will feature a “collection of never-before-seen footage” that “offers an unprecedented look at the close camaraderie, genius songwriting, and indelible impact of one of the most iconic and culturally influential bands of all time.” (That comes from Disney’s Bob Iger, who apparently has yet to hand off the “glowing descriptions of upcoming content” job to his successor.) Jackson is a little more dramatic with his pitch, describing the series as “the story of friends and of individuals” as well as “the story of human frailties and of a diving partnership.” (Replace “human” there with “human and Hobbit and Dwarf and Elf and Wizard” and this would sound a whole lot like The Lord Of The Rings.) The documentary will also feature the Beatles’ entire performance on the roof of Savile Row in London, their last show ever as a group, available here for the first time ever.
If you prefer your Beatles in print, a book tie-in with Get Back will be released on October 12 that has transcriptions of conversations between the band members and “hundreds of exclusive, never before published photos” from groups recording days.
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If I want some incredibly dull Boomer nostalgia, I can just have Thanksgiving dinner with my parents.
Robert, get back to work.
When you’re part of the elite .00001% of the people on earth the Beatles are not good enough for, do you get a street named after you?
Speaking as a Beatles fan, he’s still right.
I mean, it sounds long, but I haven’t seen it yet. They Shall Not Grow Old was reasonably watchable if not amazing.
I think where They Shall Not Grow Old fell down a bit was due to the nature of the footage they had to work with. Seemingly endless scenes of off-duty soldiers milling around and clowning for the cameras, as well as some drills and practice. When it reached the all-out combat at the end, the cameras weren’t rolling.Which is pretty much exactly what I expect from the Beatles footage.
You do, actually. Unfortunately my name is Abbey, so it didn’t work out great.
Abbey Street sounds like a great road
Abbey someone? Abbey who?
Take heart! At least it isn’t A Jimmy Buffett Christmas.
Being that The Beatles are pretty much the only “legacy” act in the top 50 in the Spotify most listened to artists, I’m going to say it’s safe to assume that this will received by more than Boomer nostalgia.
Well, this year you can.
They aren’t going to wall all (or part of this) behind the ‘premier access’ pay wall are they?
Hopefully this will encourage Disney to crack open the old wallet and aquire the rights to all the original Beatles movies and other assorted properties like the original cartoon series.
I’m pretty sure MGM/United Artists have the rights to A Hard Day’s Night, Help, and Yellow Submarine, the last of which was to satisfy their film contract with United Artists. King Features Syndicate produced the ABC-TV cartoon show, and I’m not sure who owns the rights to that.
If they can buy Star Wars and Marvel I bet they can afford to get the streaming rights to those original films. Having a Beatles tab at the the top of the Disney+ screen would be sweet.
UA’s rights to those have lapsed. HDN is owned by the Walter Shenshon estate (represented by Bruce Karcher) and Help! and Yellow Submarine are both owned by Apple Corps.
Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t know that Apple owned Help & Yellow Submarine.
Good crossover potential.RAPUNZEL: Who will save the kingdom?LENNON: I dunt fookin’ care.
Very poor Scouse transcription.
Shamefully acknowledged.
Ironically the best effort was “fookin’” despite it being impossible to transcribe a Scouse fuck with only 26 letters at your disposal.
Wow this is unfunny.
Nah, this is just a way to lock people into having new content over a holiday weekend. If there was a simultaneous theater release, maybe they’d do that.
I had never caught Let It Be and had heard it was very upfront about the strife within the Beatles. I was worried that Jackson would clean everything up and make it so happy you have no idea why they broke up.So, I realized it was on YouTube and just watched it: although there are a few moments of tension (maybe having any at all was a massive thing at the time, before “behind the music”), the cut on YouTube is like 95% performances. I thought there was a “kick george out of the beatles and get clapton” conversation? So whatever Jackson does I’m sure will be fine.
I’m just hoping that this new cut kinda clears up the whole “this was total distinction” narrative that’s been created.Was it a little rough? Sure. They had no songs after The White Album, they didn’t like the studio, and they were being filmed all the time. Add in John’s heroine addiction and it wasn’t easy. But, they were still okay. Able to get along enough to come back a few months later and do Abbey Road. And if it wasn’t for Allen Klein and if John and Paul just talked, they probably wouldn’t have broken up when they did.
Someone needs to do a deep-fake version of the Lord of the Rings with the Beatles doing their respective parts.
okay Ringo is definitely Sam…but who is Frodo? Yoko as Gollum is too on the nose, but I think I answered my question.And Carl Perkins as Bilbo.
John is Frodo.George is Merry.Paul is Pippin.
George always seemed more “contemplative” than “merry” but I feel you dawg
Just remembered the scene of Pippin picking on Merry for being shorter and reminded me Of Paul knocking George for being younger. Totally based it on that.
Somebody made a comment that I can see in my alerts but not actually read on this page, they say the Beatles picked what parts they want and Paul was Frodo, Ringo was Sam, George wanted to be Gandalf, and John wanted to be Gollum. Gotta say Paul and John as Frodo and Gollum would have been a great idea.
The Beatles tired to obtain the film rights to Lord of the Rings, and they wanted Kubrick to direct it.
They actually chose the roles they wanted to play. Paul would have been Frodo, Ringo would have been Sam, George was to be Gandalf, and John (really) wanted to play Golem. They wanted Stanley Kubrick to direct it.
I don’t understand any interpretation of this that doesn’t put Pippen, the honest fool, as Ringo. Pippen is the quintessential Ringo. Pleasant singing voice aside.
Here you go. Based on the roles the Beatles themselves wanted to play in a Kubrick-directed version.
“We’ve had one, yes. What about SECOND Meet the Beatles?” -record execs in the mid-60s
“It’s called Please Please Please Me and it will be released two months after A Hard Day’s Night II: A Hard Day’s Day
“The documentary will also feature the Beatles’ entire performance on the
roof of Savile Row in London, their last show ever as a group,
available here for the first time ever.”Jesus Christ. Bury the lede, why don’t you?
I love the Beatles……but 6 hours? Maybe I’ll watch it in one hour segments over a month or so.
“Dooooon’t let me dooowwwwn….” (repeat for 6 hours)
I got a grave robbing alert for THIS!?
I look forward to future fan edits leaving out the extraneous John and Yoko romance.
The Beatles are under-rated, IMHO.
Simultaneously the most overrated and best band of all time.
The impact on other musicians says otherwise.https://hyperscapes.com/quotes-about-the-beatles/
“…a diving partnership.”? Or maybe a DIVINE partnership?