March 16, 2011

Zemeckis turned down by Disney with Yellow Submarine

Disney has canceled plans for the next project planned by director Robert Zemeckis, a film using motion-capture CGI, a remake of the classic film of the Beatles: Yellow Submarine.

Heat Vision reveals that Zemeckis was ready with the configuration of the project since mid 2009 and early last year said that Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell will play in the movie through motion-capture technology with wich Zemeckis made ​​the famous "Beowulf" and "A Christmas Carol. "
The plan is to use sixteen Beatles songs, and to secure the cooperation of Apple Corp.

The project has struck a series of obstacles in recent months from the budget problems to other delays relating to market research, wich revealed that cartoons using motion-capture CGI are decreasing in popularity.

The news came this weekend, at the opening of the film Mars Needs Moms produced by Zemeckis, who behaved pretty badly in Boxoffice, in the launch weekend, $ 150 million film Mars Needs Moms got only $ 6,900,000.
Zemeckis will probably continue to search someone to support the project, or finally to let it go.

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