Ron Howard’s Beatles Film to Launch Hulu Documentary Division
Ron Howard‘s upcoming Beatles film will be featured in Hulu Documentary Films, the streaming service’s newest division. Howard’s movie – working title The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – will debut in theaters and on Hulu this fall, Variety reports. The deal marks Hulu’s first exclusive documentary premiere following a theatrical run.
Eight Days a Week focuses on the Beatles’ iconic early years between 1962 and 1966. It will feature rare and previously unseen footage. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and the late George Harrison‘s wife Olivia Harrison are involved in the production.
Imagine Entertainment’s Howard and Brian Grazer (Apollo 13) will produce with White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair (George Harrison: Living in the Material World) and Scott Pascucci. Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde of Beatles company Apple Corps will executive produce alongside Imagine’s Michael Rosenberg and White Horse’s Guy East and Nicholas Ferrall. Eight Days a Week is Howard’s second music documentary following 2013’s Jay-Z festival film Made in America.
“We are going to be able to take the Super 8 footage that we found, that was all shot silent,” Howard told Rolling Stone in 2014. “We’ll not only be able to digitally repair a lot of that, but we’ve also been finding the original recordings. We can now sync it up and create a concert experience so immersive and so engaging, I believe you’re going to actually feel like you’re somewhere in the Sixties, seeing what it was like to be there, feeling it and hearing it. And as a film director, that’s a fantastic challenge.”