Comments on: SXSW: Music Supervisor Randall Poster Talks Losing The Beatles In Wes Anderson’s ‘Royal Tenenbaums’

By: John

John — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

Hi . I heard on NPR that Randall was looking for a copy of "On The Beach" with the floral inside. I have this album! In great condition too. It is his for the asking. Just contact me at jdzakarian@gmail.com. Bests! John Z.

By: Marc Edward Heuck

Marc Edward Heuck — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

I saw a pre-release screening of TENENBAUMS with \”Sloop John B\” over the ending, and I really really loved that. I was so shocked when I watched it on DVD months later and the song was gone. It was just such a beautiful metaphor for the trying yet strengthening journey these characters took with the protagonist. Maybe one day when music rights are not so onerous they\’ll offer it as a bonus clip on a Blu-Ray edition.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

Hal Ashby\’s \”Coming Home\” (easily one of the greatest soundtracks) has a couple Beatles songs in it.

By: perry

perry — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

I remember wondering how Michael Moore got the rights to \”Happiness is a Warm Gun\” way back when. I think it was in Bowling for Columbine.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

What they should\’ve asked Poster is why Radiohead\’s Everything In It\’s Right Place was dropped from the \”tour of my boat\” scene from Life Aquatic that was in test screenings. Maybe cause Vanilla Sky used it already?

It\’s sad that good films didn\’t get to use Beatles songs but now the likes of Ghost Town and Dinner For Schmucks get to use them.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

I\’m glad the Elliott Smith cover didn\’t work out. First, because he already did the Beatles cover thing with Because for American Beauty and second, because I don\’t think he could\’ve pulled off a cover of Hey Jude. It\’s too powerful of a song for his voice. I\’m also glad I\’m Looking Through You fell through…Everyone is the perfect song to end to the movie, and is still rare enough to keep up their street cred. BTW, I would pay 100 bucks to see all these songs in \”the vault.\”

By: Richie

Richie — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

Elliott actually did record a version of \”Hey Jude\” and it was temped in for certain early critic and \”for your consideration\” screenings. (This was also when \”Sloop John B.\” was the closing song.) I know, because I attended an ACE screening in 11/01.

I\’d heard in advance that the Beatles version had been pulled and that they\’d gotten Elliott to contribute. I thought this was a brilliant move and was imagining some glorious FIGURE 8/Jon Brion-sounding piece… and it just wasn\’t. It was sloppy and too tack-piano heavy. Just sad.

As I understand it, Elliott recorded the track sent it to Wes & co. and it was temped in. The crew knew that this first pass just wasn\’t going to cut it– they were hoping he\’d revise, tweak, tighten, etc. But Elliott was in a really bad place and impossible to track down and that\’s when Mothersbaugh was called in to pinch hit.

By: James

James — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:55:44 +0000

While original Beatles recordings have always been difficult to get, as opposed to just the right to record a cover, there were films before GHOST TOWN that got them.

A number of them were produced by George Harrison\’s Handmade Films, as this article explains:

http://filmbabble.blogspot.com/2007/09/beatles-music-in-movies-not-their-own.html

From what I\’ve read, you have to get permission from all four Beatles or their estates, and even then it\’s monstrously expensive to use them.

Of course Fincher has used original Beatles recordings in his last two films.