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Across The Universe

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

For those who love the Beatles, here's an announcement for you. Look out for Across The Universe movie! Those Beatles' fans would know that the movie title is also one of their songs' title. It's a musical and directed by Julie Taymour, a well-known Broadway director I think. The trailer started with this guy singing one of Beatles songs called Girl. It caught my attention immediately the song was marvelous. So this is the sypnosis...

"An original musical film, Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and painted and three-dimensional animation, the film is paired with many Beatles songs that defined the time."

It stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood as the main leads. Jim and Evan portrays Jude and Lucy respectively in the film, which of course having the songs Hey Jude and Lucy In The Sky. You guys have just got to hear the songs! It is revealed that the movie would feature 31 Beatles songs in the movie and 16 Beatles song in the soundtrack. Me and Mary-Ann seriously can't wait for the movie to be screened. Here's a music video for the song It Won't Be Long.