Beatles Yellow Submarine Remake, Will Another Classic Be Trashed? - Page 2
In Yellow Submarine, the Captain of the Blue Meanies says to "glove", "A thing of beauty; destroy it forever!"
Is Disney going to be Yellow Submarine's "glove"?
Of course I know the original can never be destroyed. But sometimes another thing occurs when movies are remade. The younger audience thinks that the remake is the first one that was ever made and tend to think the real original is crap. This also happens with music today and it drives me totally NUTS! Grrrrrr! And no, Limp Bizkit was not the originator of the song "Behind Blue Eyes". Geez!
A lot of younger people also think if the movie is not in their face with special effects, then it just plain stinks. Perhaps that's why Disney is going with 3-D animation to inhance it a much as posisble.
But...Disney has yet to acquire the rights to the Beatles songs thus far and one has to wonder if Michael Jackson's recent death has anything to do with acquiring these songs.Why? Jackson's estate happens to include the 4,000 song catalogue of Beatle's music which he purchased for 47.5 million back in 1985. But keep in mind, he owns the publishing rights for the songs. There is a difference in owning the publsihing rights and the performance rights. For a full explanation go here.
A bit of history with Jackson and Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney. Jackson worked with McCartney on the song Say Say Say and they did a video together for the song in 1984. Jackson also did The Girl Is Mine with McCartney in 1982. ( I won't comment on the title or lyrics of that song, it's just too easy).
Jackson was ironically advised by Paul McCartney. Sir Paul told Jackson more or less that buying music was a sound and lucrative investment. This advice was prior to the 1985 auction of the Beatles catalogue of songs. Jackson took Sir Paul's advice and outbid both Paul McCartney AND John Lennon's widow,Yoko Ono!
Hey all you Jackson fans out there, how can you justify this dastardly move by Jackson? Huh?
Sir Paul and Yoko must have been a tad hot under the collar to say the least. If Jackson had any scruples, ESPECIALLY for the fact that he was also in the music industry, he would of let McCartney keep the publishing rights to his own songs that HE wrote with Lennon and not outbid him in the first place. But then again who knows what McCartney would of done with the songs either. Or even Yoko for that matter. Maybe it was a good thing that Sir Paul didn't get the songs? Sir Paul's ex-wife, the money grubbing Heather Mills, never signed a pre-nup and the songs may have ended up as being partly hers. GASP!
That money grubbing biotch got WAY too much from Sir Paul as far as I am concerned. At least she is out of the picture now. But when will you ever learn Sir Paul?
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