You know, during the time Rubber Soul, Help! and A Hard Day’s Night came out.
Director Ron Howard is back in the musical spotlight, signing on to produce and direct a Beatles documentary that will chronicle through the early years of their career. The upcoming yet-untitled doc will take during the early years of Beatlemania (1960-1966), taking classic footage from the Apple Corps. archives they found and digitally enhancing it to give fans previously unreleased concert videos.
Howard will also get first-hand accounts from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison to get better perspective of the time.
Joining to help in the tentatively scheduled 2015 release will be Nigel Sinclair (George Harrison: Living in the Material World and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan), Brian Grazer (Apollo 13, Get on Up) and Scott Pascucci (George Harrison).
The documentary will also try to strike a generational gap and hope to find old fans from the clips and interview them today, as well as their grandchildren to see how much The Beatles make an impact in their lives 50 years later.
“We are going to be able to take the Super 8 footage that we found, that was all shot silent. We’ll not only be able to digitally repair a lot of that, but we’ve also been finding the original recordings. We can now sync it up and create a concert experience so immersive and so engaging, I believe you’re going to actually feel like you’re somewhere in the Sixties, seeing what it was like to be there, feeling it and hearing it. And as a film director, that’s a fantastic challenge.“
This is Ron Howard’s second music doc, the first being JAY Z’s Made In America.
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