A restored version of the film with additional material was planned for DVD release in 2003, to accompany "Let It Be...Naked", Sir
Paul McCartney's remix of the "Let It Be" album. However, in restoring the film, Apple Studios discovered that the additional unreleased footage of the Beatles contained too many controversial issues that still needed to be resolved. Press at the time reported, Sir
Paul McCartney and Sir
Ringo Starr decided that the movie and its additional material would not be released on DVD during their lifetimes, over concerns that it could hurt The Beatles' brand. This changed when director Peter Jackson, for the project's 50th anniversary in 2020, re-edited the footage into a new film, "The Beatles: Get Back" and the original "Let It Be" movie was planned to be released as an extra with the "The Beatles: Get Back" DVD/BluRay. These plans were abandoned again when the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and "The Beatles: Get Back" became a 3 part TV series.