Thread: George Harrison - The Movie
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27th Sep 2007, 11:00 AM #1
George Harrison - The Movie
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese plans to direct an authorised documentary about George Harrison, the former Beatle who died of lung cancer in 2001, Daily Variety reported on Thursday.
Interviews and early production will begin this year, and the film will take several years to complete, the trade paper said.
"It would have given George great joy to know that Martin Scorsese has agreed to tell his story," the paper quoted Harrison's widow, Olivia, as saying.
She will serve as a producer of the untitled project, and will supply archival materials. Daily Variety added that surviving Beatle members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr would participate, as would the Beatles' Apple Records label.
Scorsese, who won an Oscar this year for directing the crime saga "The Departed", is preparing for the April 2008 release of a concert documentary about the Rolling Stones, called "Shine A Light". He turned his attention to Bob Dylan in the 2005 documentary "No Direction Home", and depicted the Band's farewell concert in 1976's "The Last Waltz".
The Harrison movie will cover his time in the Fab Four, when he composed such memorable tunes as "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun", his inconsistent solo career, his foray into movie production with such projects as "Monty Python's Life of Brian", and his enthusiastic embrace of Eastern mysticism, Daily Variety said.
"George Harrison's music and his search for spiritual meaning is a story that still resonates today and I'm looking forward to delving deeper," Scorsese was quoted as saying.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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27th Sep 2007, 11:05 AM #2The Harrison movie will cover his time in the Fab Four, when he composed such memorable tunes as "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun"
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Sep 2007, 11:17 AM #3
I'm going to be controversial and say it doesn't sound a very exciting film to me! He was a great composer, and very probably a lovely man. But it's also possible to be a quite uninteresting great composer and lovely man whose life wouldn't make a very thrilling film.
But perhaps I'll be proved wrong.
Si.
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27th Sep 2007, 12:28 PM #4
Can I just add I'm not excited either?
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27th Sep 2007, 12:36 PM #5Wayne Guest
Are you ever?
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27th Sep 2007, 1:33 PM #6
I wonder if it'll be better than "Hard Day's night"
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27th Sep 2007, 1:34 PM #7
Hard Day's Night is great, IMO.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Sep 2007, 1:34 PM #8
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27th Sep 2007, 1:35 PM #9
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27th Sep 2007, 1:41 PM #10
I'm not that insane Ralph! I do have the other Beatle films though... even the rubbish Magical Mystery Tour.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Sep 2007, 1:49 PM #11
There's a title that would lend itself to spoofing.
Si.
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27th Sep 2007, 1:50 PM #12
I don't know who would do a thing like that Si.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Sep 2007, 1:54 PM #13Pip Madeley Guest
I look forward to the future PS audios: Yelp!, A Hard Day's Nick and One Of Us Is Yellow (Submarine).
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28th Sep 2007, 2:21 PM #14
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