{"id":805110,"date":"2020-03-11T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=965637"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:58:05","slug":"peter-jacksons-beatles-documentary-gets-a-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/peter-jacksons-beatles-documentary-gets-a-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson\u2019s Beatles Documentary Gets a Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BeatlesDoc.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/peter-jackson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-jackson\" data-tag=\"peter-jackson\">Peter Jackson<\/a>\u2019s eagerly awaited <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beatles\" data-tag=\"beatles\">Beatles<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/get-back\/\" id=\"auto-tag_get-back\" data-tag=\"get-back\">Get Back<\/a><\/em>, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/documentary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_documentary\" data-tag=\"documentary\">documentary<\/a> on the band during its final year, will be released in theaters by Disney on September 4.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from 55 hours of footage shot in early 1969, as the Beatles were recording what would become <em>Let It Be<\/em>, the film includes never-before-seen footage and audio from those sessions, including behind-the-scenes clips from the band\u2019s legendary 1969 rooftop concert in London. The movie is, Jackson said last year, \u201cthe ultimate \u2018fly on the wall\u2019 experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about \u2014 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<p><em>Get Back<\/em> also aims to elaborate on the original <em>Let It Be<\/em> movie, released in 1970 and taken from the same recording sessions. That film amounted to a <em>cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/em>&nbsp;document of the Beatles\u2019 fragmentation. Ringo Starr is said to be pleased with the new movie, recently telling a friend that he appreciated that it didn\u2019t make it seem as if the band was fighting all the time during that period. \u201cHe said, \u2018It was just not true,&#8217;\u201d says a source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were hours and hours of us just laughing and playing music, not at all like the version that came out,\u201d he said in a release. \u201cThere was a lot of joy and I think Peter will show that. I think this version will be a lot more peace and loving, like we really were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> last week, Dhani Harrison, George\u2019s son, said he had recently attended a screening of the movie and was overwhelmed, comparing it to the way Jackson treated vintage World War I footage in his film <em>They Shall Not Grow Old.&nbsp;<\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s so ridiculously amazing looking \u2014 I could see John Lennon\u2019s fillings,\u201d Harrison said. \u201cI emailed Peter yesterday and said, \u2018This is one of the most amazing things I\u2019ve ever seen.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/peter-jacksons-beatles-documentary-release-date-965637\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jackson\u2019s eagerly awaited The Beatles: Get Back, a new documentary on the band during its final year, will be released in theaters by Disney on September 4. Culled from 55 hours of footage shot in early 1969, as the Beatles were recording what would become Let It Be, the film includes never-before-seen footage and [&hellip;]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 13:27:21","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}