Peter Jackson to Direct New Beatles Documentary
Following his successful First World War documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson has signed on to direct a second archive project: a film edited from the full 55 hours of footage of the Beatles’ Let It Be recording sessions.
Jackson is collaborating with the Beatles’ record company Apple, with the approval of McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison.
Jackson said, “The 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us ensures this movie will be the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’ experience … it’s 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.” Jackson says the project will use the same film restoration techniques as were employed for They Shall Not Grow Old.
Image: The Beatles in the studio in 1969. Photograph: Apple Corps Ltd.
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