{"id":481535,"date":"2019-01-30T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=786380"},"modified":"2019-01-30T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:00:31","slug":"peter-jackson-details-new-beatles-film-based-on-unreleased-let-it-be-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/peter-jackson-details-new-beatles-film-based-on-unreleased-let-it-be-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson Details New Beatles Film Based on Unreleased \u2018Let It Be\u2019 Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Filmmaker Peter Jackson<\/a> has been tapped to turn 55 hours of never-released footage of the Beatles<\/a> recording Let It Be<\/em><\/a> into a new movie.<\/p>\n

The footage was shot by British director Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg between January 2nd and January 31st, 1969. It was originally intended for a TV special, but the project changed over time and ultimately became Lindsay-Hogg\u2019s 1970 documentary, Let It Be<\/em><\/a>, which famously featured the Beatles\u2019 performance on the roof of the Apple Corps headquarters in London.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Jackson said of the film, \u201cThe\u00a055\u00a0hours of never-before-seen footage and\u00a0140\u00a0hours of audio made available to us, ensures this movie will be the ultimate \u2018fly on the wall\u2019 experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about \u2013 it\u2019s like a time machine transports us back to 1969, and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson added that he hoped the film would help disperse the cloud of conflict that\u2019s long hung over Let It Be<\/em>, which was recorded 18 months before the Beatles broke up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was relieved to discover the reality is very different to the myth,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cSure, there\u2019s moments of drama \u2013 but none of the discord this project has long been associated with. Watching John, Paul, George, and Ringo work together, creating now-classic songs from scratch, is not only fascinating \u2013 it\u2019s funny, uplifting and surprisingly intimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film is currently in production, though a release date and title have yet to be announced. The project is being made in full cooperation with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison. Following the arrival of Jackson\u2019s new film, a restored version of Lindsay-Hogg\u2019s Let It Be<\/em> will also be released.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker Peter Jackson has been tapped to turn 55 hours of never-released footage of the Beatles recording Let It Be into a new movie. The footage was shot by British director Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg between January 2nd and January 31st, 1969. It was originally intended for a TV special, but the project changed over time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 08:13:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}