Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is making a movie about The Beatles with previously unseen studio footage, the band’s website said — 50 years after the Fab Four performed live together for the final time.
The Oscar winner will work with some 55 hours of never-released video of John, Paul, George and Ringo as they worked on their Let It Be album in January 1969.
The footage, plus 140 hours of audio, “ensures this movie will be the ultimate 'fly on the wall' experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about,” Jackson said in a statement.
“It's like a time machine transports us back to 1969, and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together.”
Mr. Jackson last year released a World War One documentary, using decades-old frontline footage, to rave reviews.
