10 Movies You Won't Believe They Tried To Remake
4. Yellow Submarine
1968's animated Beatles-themed musical Yellow Submarine is nothing if not a true original - a brilliant fusion of psychedelic visuals and, of course, the band's incredible music.
Despite the film's singular place in pop-culture, Disney mounted a remake in 2009, with Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) planning to produce it with cutting edge performance capture techniques as per his prior films The Polar Express, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol.
Disney were keen to get it out for 2012 in time for the London Summer Olympics, with Peter Serafinowicz cast as Paul McCartney, Cary Elwes as George Harrison, and David Tennant as the Blue Meanie.
But the project was cancelled in 2010 due to the underperformance of both A Christmas Carol and another pricey performance capture project, Mars Needs Moms. Zemeckis then tried to take Blue Submarine to other studios to no avail, before he himself admitted that it was probably best not to remake it.
Test footage from Zemeckis' remake did leak online in 2021, and while it certainly touted a fittingly off-kilter art style, given the generally polarised response to Zemeckis' performance capture films, it's tough to have much faith that the full, feature-length project would've been worth it.