How much do we hate Sam Mendes' Fabs biopics?

The scary thing is they will potentially be doing scenes and dialogue that they will want to be historically accurate to what actually happened so that it's perfectly truthful... well maybe. But who will oversee that aspect?.. Paul & Ringo are all that's left and they can't even remember what they had for breakfast let alone what happened in the late 50's and Ringo wasn't even there until 1962 anyway so the real early years will be left up to Paul and he changes stories like the wind apart from a couple over the years. The Harrison & Lennon estates have almost no one who was even born let alone apart of the story in the 50's & 60's. So will it will be left up to the producers/script writers to make it all truthful?... good luck with that as all sources over the years have had lots of different "facts" with some completely made up and others vague at best. The producers/director wouldn't know what is right and what is wrong unless they rope in someone like Mark Lewishon but would he lower himself to help a project like this I wonder? Anyone else wouldn't come close to being a good fact checker.
This has DISASTER written all over it. Anyone remember "Birth of The Beatles" or "Backbeat"??. Those x 4...God help us all. The Beatles Legacy may well go down the drain in one short year or so. Ca

Genuinely baffled by this announcement.

Why? What purpose is served that the documentatries to date, particularly Anthology & Get Back haven’t served?

Who will play Steev?

If the movies are anything like Bohemian Rhapsody, get ready to see The Beatles in matching suits and moptops in 1964 premiering Strawberry Fields Forever in front of hordes of screaming teenagers.

Roshomon in quadraphonic!

Looking forward to the four perspectives on recording Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

Steve Buscemi for John.
Peter Dinklage for Paul.
Idris Elba for George.
Melissa McCarthy for Ringo.

:biglaugh:

Also, Johnny Depp as Yoko Ono. Brad Pitt as Linda McCartney.

With two of them dead, not sure how they will accomplish the point-of-view aspect, unless using autobiographies, interviews, etc. as some basis. But judging by previous biopics that have come out over the years, I am not optimistic about this one, which will surely exaggerate and pontificate and elevate these four individuals way beyond their existing mythical proportions. Can't wait to see how the depicted Ringo will have so much more to say and have deep creative input, etc. :laugh:

I wonder if Peter Jackson's going to jump on as a producer?

He already has his DNR machine charged and ready to go.

Phase Two announced:

IronMal: The Anvil Avenger
The Amazing Mr. Martin
Magic Alex in The Eighteenth Dimension
Rise of The Scream Queen

and the end of Phase Two...

The Infinite Cash Wars - The gang team up to take on the mighty Alien Klien as he sues the galaxy for the Infinite Cash.

Please god no. Make it stop. Just re-release the Anthology film series and the complete rooftop concert in 4K and let's move on. :doh:

The Kardashian-infatuated Timothee Chalamet and Superbad-alum Jonah Hill are the best that casting directors can come up with nowadays?

Who's going to play Jane Asher? Sydney Sweeney? Hollywood is so far down the toilet at this point that biopics are only bested in rubbish by superhero drivel churned out ad nauseum.

I'm pretty sure I'm Not There was the last quality attempt at a biopic-type film (although it was akin to a docu). Capote was outstanding but not really a biopic at all. Walk the Line was quite good, but it had Joaquin Phoenix who wasn't just a supermodel baby face being force-fed down the public's throat as the new James Dean.

Idris Elba to play Billy Preston + every Beatle!

Waste millions of dollars that could have been used on original creative ideas and not beating a dead horse.

At least the LOVE show was a unique idea and approach to the Beatles catalogue.

If I want Ringo's perspective, I'll just watch the "parading" sequence with the young lad and the instrumental "This Boy" from AHDN. :shrug:

Hollywood has no original ideas. It’s all bio-pics and superhero spin-offs.

It was just announced, Paul McCartney gave permission for this film to be made on one condition: a Xenomorph has to play the part of Allen Klein.

Enough! Enough! Enough! I'm going to end up hating this group if all of this nonsense continues.

It's over and we all know more than we need to.

There’s no substitute for the real thing, and bio picks tend to be lopsided in one direction or another. I would prefer a film that only features the actual people involved, and taken from the actual vaults that hold the original film.

No talking heads, no narration, just the real footage telling the story. Now that I would be interested in, but a music bio pick of The Beatles lends itself to a revisionist interpretation. There’s enough existing film to tell the real story without some actor making an attempt to be someone they’re not.

Is this going to be released in theatres?

If so, Ringo's movie will bomb LOL...probably George's as well.

John and Paul's will have the highest box office.

I predict a fifth movie where the four combine together into a crime-fighting super cyborg robot or something like that.

There is an interesting conundrum though — which order will the films be released? Given the last film will want to go out with a bang, and that film will in some sense have the final word, which Beatle will have the last say? No offense to Ringo, but does anyone really want Ringo’s story told last? And if McCartney’s film is last, won’t there be backlash?

My prediction of the order of films:
George Harrison
Ringo
Paul McCartney
John Lennon

To quote the late, great George Harrison: “I find it rubbish.”

Then in two years a woman can direct 6 films telling the stories of Cynthia, Yoko, Jane, Linda, Patti and Maureen.

Put Sydney Sweeney and I'll IN into the project

If the films are successful we can get the following spin off films:

Beatle wives stories
Mal Evans Story
Pete Best Story
Badfinger Story

I wonder if the four films will be released at the same time. It wouldn't make much commercial sense.

I would start the Paul film like this:

Hands doodling chords on a piano.

A voice sings "Scrambled eggs...."

Jane Asher's voice: Paul, breakfast is ready!!!

We see Paul's face and he replies "I'll be down in a minute".

Where's my Oscar?

Ringo's movie will have to be called 'Peace and Love '. (waves peace sign)

I just wonder how George Harrison - The Movie will do at box office compared to Avengers - Secret Wars

In whose movie will the floating plastic bag appear? Or is it going to be a unifying motif?

To those of you 60+ (or so) in the "maybe it'll be bad but who cares?" camp - would you erase the whole Bee Gees/Frampton Pepper movie debacle? Yes, I know that none of the fabs were involved, but George Martin and Billy Preston certainly were (and it was given a green light by our heroes).

I do realize that massive turd didn't do any long term damage, but it put it made it hard to admit to Beatles-fandom in public for minute or two...

It’s wonderful to be able to choose what and when one want to or not watch something.

Then there better be a Rutles version. The Stig O’Hara version would have to be a silent film, of course.

Already 12 pages and still three years to go, this thread could be one of the biggest in the history of SHMF:laugh: