The 1970 Let It Be Beatles documentary is coming to Disney Plus

The Beatles successful the United Kingdom, circa 1960. | Photo by Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

It has been hard to find carnal copies of manager Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be in the years since its theatrical release, but Disney Plus is getting acceptable to debut a remastered mentation of the film.

Disney Plus announced contiguous that Let It Be — a chronicle of the Beatles signaling their Let It Be album successful 1969 earlier breaking up the pursuing twelvemonth — volition watercourse connected May 8th. Like the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, Let It Be will diagnostic archetypal movie footage remastered by Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post Production and remastered audio created utilizing the aforesaid de-mixing tools that recently led to the merchandise of the Beatles’ last song. In a connection astir Let It Be’s streaming premiere, Lindsay-Hogg recalled however the band’s breakup “very overmuch darkened the cognition of the film” erstwhile it archetypal deed theaters and said helium was moved to motion disconnected connected the rerelease aft being “knocked out” by Jackson’s enactment connected Get Back.

Jackson added that helium was “absolutely thrilled” to spot the caller task travel unneurotic and described Let It Be and Get Back as “one epic story, yet completed aft 5 decades.”

“The 2 projects enactment and heighten each other,” Jackson said. “Let It Be is the climax of Get Back, portion Get Back provides a captious missing discourse for Let It Be. Michael Lindsay-Hogg was unfailingly adjuvant and gracious portion I made Get Back and it’s lone close that his archetypal movie has the past word...looking and sounding acold amended than it did successful 1970.”