UPDATE TO BELOW STORY:
After being out of print for over five decades, The Beatles film Let It Be will finally be available again when it comes to Disney+ on May 8th.
The film, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, has been restored from the original 16 milimeter negative by Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post Production, and the company also remastered the sound using the MAL de-mixing technology that was developed for Jackson's Get Back documentary in 2021, which also streamed on Disney+.
Lindsay-Hogg said in a statement, "Let It Be was ready to go in October/November 1969, but it didn’t come out until April 1970. One month before its release, The Beatles officially broke up. And so the people went to see Let It Be with sadness in their hearts, thinking, ‘I’ll never see The Beatles together again. I will never have that joy again,’ and it very much darkened the perception of the film."
Jackson added, "I was so lucky to have access to Michael’s outtakes for Get Back, and I’ve always thought that Let It Be is needed to complete the Get Back story. Over three parts, we showed Michael and The Beatles filming a groundbreaking new documentary, and Let It Be is that documentary -- the movie they released in 1970. I now think of it all as one epic story, finally completed after five decades."
No word on if and when the remastered Let it Be will be released on DVD/Blu-ray.
Here's the original post about this update from the Beatles Official Instagram.
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The Beatles have something in the works.
They have posted the four squares from the cover of the Let It Be album, except they're blank, with the caption, "At Last..." above the photo.
Another caption below says, "There will be an answer...," which is a lyric from the song "Let It Be."
So, perhaps they will be releasing:
- A restored version of the original Let it Be movie?
- The rest of the unreleased footage from the Get Back documentary directed by Peter Jackson?
- A soundtrack to the Get Back documentary?
- Or the project Jackson alluded to in 2022 when he said he was "talking to the Beatles about another project, something very, very different than Get Back. We're seeing what the possibilities are, but it's another project with them. It's not really a documentary … and that's all I can really say."
And all we can say is stay tuned...
Check out the original post about it here on The Beatles Official Instagram.