The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be Film’ will be made available to stream on Disney+ next month.
Streaming to the channel on May 8, this will mark the first time that Let It Be will be made available to view in 50 years.
Originally released on 13 May 1970, Let It Be was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. It arrived a month after the Beatles had broken up, and a week after the album of the same name arrived.
The film has been remastered using the original 16mm negative, with support from Hogg. It will also include the same audio de-mixing technology that was used in Peter Jackson’s Get Back.
“absolutely thrilled”
The remastered Let It Be has been restored by Peter Jackson’s team at Park Road Post Production. It also includes footage which did not feature in Jackson’s original Get Back docuseries of 2021.
“I’m absolutely thrilled that Michael’s movie, Let It Be, has been restored and is finally being re-released after being unavailable for decades”, Peter Jackson said in a statement.
The director continued, “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 ground-breaking 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. The two projects support and enhance each other: Let It Be is the climax of Get Back, while Get Back provides a vital missing context for Let It Be. Michael Lindsay-Hogg was unfailingly helpful and gracious while I made Get Back, and it’s only right that his original movie has the last word…looking and sounding far better than it did in 1970”.
Rumours had been spreading that Disney+ were planning a Beatles related project, having shared a suggestive post on social media in recent days.
“There will be an answer…” Above the boxes is the phrase “AT LAST…”, they added, alongside a graphic with four boxes in the same shape as the Beatles ‘Let It Be’ album.
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