Cary Elwes, star of Robin Hood: Men in Control-Top Tights (because he’s put on a few pounds since ’87, you see. Haha, have some more ice cream soup, fatty.), has joined the cast of Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming 3D remake of Yellow Submarine. The who with the what now? From THR:
Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in negotiations to portray the members of the band in “Yellow Submarine,” which the director is remaking for Disney.
The original 1968 animated movie was based on the music by the Beatles and featured a storyline wherein a soldier called Old Fred meets up with the Beatles and travels in a yellow submersible to Pepperland. Among the group’s encounters are the music-hating Blue Meanies [Na'avi?].
Zemeckis is making the movie using 3D performance-capture technology. [of course]
The Beatles tribute band the Fab Four will be motion-captured as the ensemble for the musical performance sequences.
And so the Robert Zemeckis’ motion-capture, condom-people experiment continues (I hear his nickname for his wife’s vagina is the ‘uncanny valley’). Anyway, a 3-D movie featuring Beatles music? 1966 is going to be so jealous.
(I CAN HAZ DINNER FOR 6? OM NOM NOM NOM…)
/You keeled my father, prepare to diet.
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I get the feeling that any sea vessel Cary Elwes boards automatically turns into a submarine.
Elwes apparently thought he was auditioning for the role of Mark David Chapman.
Is there any reason that four people who look and sound nothing like the Beatles were chosen for this? Did Zmeckis happen to notice that they move like the Beatles?
It’ll still be good as long as 16 year old Alicia Silverstone goes all stalkery and shows her hoo-hoo.
WHAT? SHE’S 34?! SINCE WHEN?
sonofabitch
Stuart Townsend dropped out of this for a role in The Monkees.
Who is this movie for? I get it with the Jonas brothers -both the “band” and the technology are the latest gimmicks. But Yellow Submarine -you will end up with the people who loved it in the 60s and therefore want nothing to do with this, and the young idiots to whom 3-D/mo-cap is in itself the selling point hating it because they don’t get it. That leaves the rest of us upset that a 3-D screen that could be showing Avatar is being wasted on this crap.
When this comes out, Ringo Starr will roll over in his grave.
Give it time, this thing is like a year away.
Looks like he is getting ready for his role in “Carey Elwes: Scotland Yard Detective” on BBC.
This movie should be good for him. Subs helped Jared lose a lot of weight!
I can’t stand the Beatles in 1-D, let alone 3. Over-hyped fuckwads. *pushes upper lip onto gums* Let me tell you something, if a high-school marching band can cover 95% of your entire catalog with just a few weeks of practice, your music is jack shit.
Hey guys, let’s film a 3-D mo-crap remake of a movie based on the Beatles album that even die-hard fans think is shit
The only music heard in Pepperland is by the Butthole Surfers.
Wow, J. I think you’re just saying that because the Beatles are more popular than you.
Shut up, Chino. You have no idea what you’re talking about!
*runs off sniffling*
oh great now i cant get Hey Bulldoooog outta my head
It’s sad “Dewie Cox” did better casting the Beatles than a movie about the Beatles.
(G. Harrison – Justin Long, J. Lennon – Paul Rudd, Ringo Starr – Jason Schwartzman and P. McCartney – Jack Black.)
Cary Elwes could be in Sgt. Pepperoni’s Over-Worked Heart’s Club Sandwich Band.
The good news for Elwes is, having stood that close to Lohan, he’s going to lose a ton of weight from the Venereal Disease that he just picked up.
All I get out of this is a submarine and Old Gregg. Which is O.K.
Cary Elwes also doubles as a flotation device.
Love The Beatles, this sounds like crap! Just use the Rock Band avatars…ah Ringo
‘Oh wait Paul?… ‘ew mean i go tew sleep, uhnd then I wayk up in a newh bodee?’ ‘ew shur about this?
“So by yellow submarine they mean gravy boat, right?”
Things will be going great until the yellow battleship* comes in and fucks everything up.
*Yoko Ono
Dor sho gha! new work pc ftw!
*slow clap*
Awwww, Mark David Chapman, you sunk my battleship!
Everyone panicked when a small Asian woman stormed the set yelling, “Number 9! Number 9!” until they realized it was just Cary Elwes’ mid-morning take-out delivery.
Even his drunk mexican cousin, Robert Dos Equis, thinks this is crap.
A yellow submarine.
A yellow submarine?
A yellow submarine.
Stoney, if that was a Repo: The Genetic Opera joke, then I’m going to need your home address and the names of your next of kin.
This production will be temporarily shut down when the undulations of Cary Elwes’ jiggling gut will overwhelm the motion capture equipment causing it to explode.
FUCK MIKE, I just sent an email to three people signed “Al”
New up. And I think I need to log off for a while.