Award-Winning Director Ron Howard Working on New Beatles Documentary Releasing 2015 Focusing on the Iconic Band's Early Years

 

Beatles New Documentary from Award-Winning Director Ron Howard Releasing 2015 Focusing on the Iconic Band's Early Years

A new Beatles documentary has been revealed from Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard. Howard will directed and produced a film based on the iconic bands touring years from 1960-1966. These years sparked Beatlemania and also gave us great albums including A Hard Day's Night and Rubber Soul). 

Howard will do sit down interviews with surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as talk with Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison (wife of the late George Harrison). The documentary film is set to release sometime in 2015. 

"What's so compelling to me is the perspective that we have now, the chance to really understand the impact that they had on the world," Howard says. "That six-year period is such a dramatic transformation in terms of global culture and these remarkable four individuals, who were both geniuses and also entirely relatable. That duality is something that is going to be very interesting to explore."

Grammy-winning producer behind, Nigel Sinclair will join Howard for the the documentary. Sinclair produced George Harrison: Living in the Material World and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. Other producers on board are Brian Grazer (Apollo 13, Get on Up) and Scott Pascucci (George Harrison). 

"We are going to be able to take the Super 8 footage that we found, that was all shot silent. We'll not only be able to digitally repair a lot of that, but we've also been finding the original recordings," explains Howard. "We can now sync it up and create a concert experience so immersive and so engaging, I believe you're going to actually feel like you're somewhere in the Sixties, seeing what it was like to be there, feeling it and hearing it. And as a film director, that's a fantastic challenge."

Sinclair shares about some surprising footage they have already found from the Beatles' final concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in 1966. "Their last concert in '66, when they were probably the most famous people on the planet, [they] ended up carrying their own amps onstage. I think that's almost emblematic of the charm of this story," he says. 

"I hope we find some of that in the footage," shares Howard. "We may have a shot of a boy or a girl very early in their life at a concert, and then we may be able to find them today and talk to them, and talk to their grandchildren and see what their relationship is with the Beatles, and understand how multiple generations find tremendous value and relevance in their music."

 

 

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