GetBack director Peter Jackson “fell in love with” the archival footage of the Beatles: “It was entertaining. It wasn’t miserable... I thought, ‘If these outtakes are entertaining, I should be able to somehow knock together a reasonably good movie.”
Peter Jackson does love a good epic trilogy … and so, now, do Beatles fans. When it was announced in June that a change in plans for Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary was afoot, and it was now going to be three times as long as originally announced — a three-part streaming docuseries on Disney Plus, instead of a single theatrical feature — aficionados who’d long hoped to see outtakes from the 1970 “Let It Be” realized they were going to get their own multi-part quest film.
“And we ended up with six hours, at the beginning of this year, maybe, or towards the end of last year,” Jackson says. “And so then the moment came whee we just thought, ‘How on earth did we get it any shorter than this?’ Because at that point, you’re starting to commit a crime against rock ‘n’ roll history if you start trimming any more out, because there’s stuff there that people have to see.
Most of the famous tension comes in the first of the three episodes, which ends on a cliffhanger after George Harrison abruptly quits the band, a few days into filming, just as everyone is about to take what seems like it should be an ordinary lunch break. An earlier scene in which Harrison exchanges a few sharp words with McCartney about how he’s
But things do get mirthful, if not downright Monty Python-esque. This even occurs in moments in the Twickenham footage, and especially once the Beatles make a sensible move back into their own Apple studio and bring in Billy Preston as a fifth Beatle. The Beatles themselves, both living and dead, have left behind a string of quotes over the years describing the making of “Let It Be” as nothing but miserable.
“They resurrect it because they’re looking for material. They need 14 songs and they go back into their old childhood list of songs that they wrote and never recorded. The thing is, was there anything back there that wasn’t complete crap? We’ve got the footage of them playing a whole bunch of these old songs. They’d land on ‘One After 909,’ and George said, ‘That’s a really good song. We should do it.’ John says, ‘Well, I always wanted to change the words. The words were terrible.
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