Disney Sinks Robert Zemeckis' Yellow Submarine

After the disastrous opening of Disney's newest 3D motion capture film Mars Needs Moms with $6.9 million. Pretty bad for having a $150 million budget. I blame marketing, but Disney is losing faith with motion capture and have cancelled Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of the Beatles The Yellow Submarine.

The news isn't really a shocker considering the film has had some holes rusted into it for sometime now. They had budget problems, presentations pushed back and never got to, and a release date cancelled and never set again. So, having the Zemeckis produced Mars Needs Moms failing at the box office just pushed Disney to say they have had enough with the sinking of the sub and let it rest at the bottom of the sea.

News has come that Zemeckis has retreated to Montana to "regroup". Rumors are he will try to sell the project to other studios or (hopefully) go back to directing live-action films again. Zemeckis has way to much potential to be wasted on the "creepy" motion capture tech. We will just have to wait and see.

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Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly

Finally, the never-before-seen-footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. We should be seeing more awesome footage with the release of the Back to the Future Trilogy on Blu-ray for the first time on October 26.

Many people never knew that there was a different Marty McFly before the awesome Michael J. Fox. That person was Eric Stoltz, he filmed about 5 weeks of footage then got the boot by director Zemeckis and producer Spielberg. He was just too serious for the role.

Here is some of the footage that every BTTF fan has been wanting to see for years.

Back To The Future Trilogy  hits Blu-ray on October 26

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Robert Zemeckis Directing Timeless

I have hoped for a moment for years and the moment is the time when I hear that the Amazing director Robert Zemckis will return to making live-action films.  It seems my prayers have been answered.

Deadline is reporting that Director Robert Zemeckis is attached to direct a sci-fi film called Timeless.

Details on the project are nowhere in site, but it's said to be a time travel film idea pitched from Warner Bros. and Zemeckis is confirmed as director. 

Timeless will mark the directors first time doing a live-action film since Cast Away back in 2000. Zemeckis has been very interested in his little hobby of doing performance capture animated films since then with films including:  The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007), A Christmas Carol (2009) and the upcoming  The Yellow Submarine (2012). 

The news just seems so right because it has the person who created and directed the time-travel film series Back To The Future way back in 1985. You just can't find a better director for this project.

Timeless has no release date for now but I can't wait for it.

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