"Submarine was already facing a few rocky reefs before this weekend," notes the story. "There were budget issues, and a key presentation Zemeckis was to have made before the Beatles heirs kept being pushed back. A December date for the confab was scrapped and never rescheduled. But sources say the disastrous $6.9 million opening for the $150 million-budgeted Mars, produced by Zemeckis, guaranteed that Submarine would never set sail at Disney. The producer-director is now free to shop the project to another studio."
There was some rumbling that besides using the 16 Beatles songs that were part of the original Yellow Submarine's soundtrack, an effort might be made to secure Paul McCartney's unreleased song "Return to Pepperland," a music video for which is provided below.