Zemeckis Casts His "Beatles" in Remake of Yellow Submarine

Robert Zemeckis is in negotiations with four actors to portray the Beatles' cartoon stand-ins in the director's remake of Yellow Submarine:

It's "all together now" for the cast of Robert Zemeckis' upcoming Beatles feature.

Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in negotiations to portray the members of the band in "Yellow Submarine," which the director is remaking for Disney.

So let me see if I have this right: the actual Beatles didn't appear in Yellow Submarine (except in a very brief filmed message at the end), but were drawn and then verbally imitated by voiceover actors. For the remake, actors will imitate the body movements of the originally animated characters (which were themselves representations of the actual Beatles). Do we really need this? Fourth-order re-creations of actuality?

I predict that the fad of motion-capture 3-D filmmaking will spawn yet another trend: 4-D Represented Actuality--that is, live actors on a stage.