Disney+ Releases 'Let It Be' Trailer

When the Walt Disney Company first launched Disney+ in November 2019, it famously said it was throwing open the doors to the "Disney vault" and letting out all those movies and TV series that had been tucked away for generations, only allowing occasional releases. The problem, of course, was that streaming is a gaping maw of endless content devouring. Great, said viewers; what's on tap for next month? Apparently, Disney decided to find other vaults to throw open, this time, ones that Anglophiles and dads would like. The streaming service is releasing a restored version of The Beatles' final film, Let It Be, originally released back in 1970 in the weeks after the band called it quits and stored away in their vault since 1980.

This is the second time Disney+ has dipped into the world's first boy band for content; in 2021, it premiered the three-part docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, which filmmaker Peter Jackson made using outtake footage from the Let It Be film. Unsurprisingly, Jackson's Park Road Post Production, using the same technology to make Get Back, is also behind the restoration of the original movie. Though at the time, Let It Be was seen as a depressing film by fans, who were looking at it through a haze of grief (and after it was shut away, through the lens of John Lennon's assassination), Jackson insists it has been unfairly maligned and deserves to be viewed again through fresh eyes.

The restored trailer arrived just ahead of the film's May debut, and the film certainly looks gorgeously rendered. Whether or not it will prove depressing or not remains to be seen.