Robert Zemeckis' YELLOW SUBMARINE remake must be stopped, by any means neccessary

I just... I can't even speak. I'm too upset.

Here's The Hollywood Reporter with the news that made me want to throw all of my Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? DVDs in a pile and set them on fire.

Robert Zemeckis is negotiations to direct a remake of "Yellow Submarine" for Disney.

"Submarine" was a 1968 animated feature based on music by the Beatles. It was produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate.

Disney had no comment on the dealmaking, which is in the thick of trying to acquire the rights to the music to the film, which included the title track as well as classics such as "Eleanor Rigby," "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "With a Little Help From My Friends."

Like all Zemeckis productions, "Submarine" would be done in performance capture and would also be a digital 3D endeavor.

Not just a remake. A mugger-hugging mo-cap remake. So we'll get to see John Lennon as one of those horrible Polar Express digi-zombies, stiffly shambling around with glassy eyes, like a monster brought to life through some sort of ghastly, occult ritual.

This must not happen. It must not happen.


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