Beatles' Yellow Submarine getting remade

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis plans to live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

Variety reports that the Beowulf and A Christmas Carol director has joined with Disney to remake the trippy 1968 movie based on the music of The Beatles.

According to the trade paper, Disney "has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D digital production format he employed for A Christmas Carol."

The new Yellow Submarine will reportedly sail on to the sun, till it finds the sea green, in summer 2012.

Variety adds that the deal "has been months in the making with armies of lawyers, and sources said that rights will encompass the future prospects of a Broadway stage musical like Disney accomplished with The Lion King, a Cirque du Soleil stage production ("Love," a production based on Beatles tunes, has been running for two years at The Mirage) and merchandise."