There’s no doubt that anyone who’s ever been attached to The Beatles takes on a lengendary aura, but their manager, Brian Epstein, has always held particular interest. Now it’s been announced that producer David Permut (Prayers For Bobby, Youth In Revolt) has acquired the script A Day In The Life’ by Tony Gittelson about Epstein, who sold records from his father’s appliance store, before discovering the Fab Four during his lunch break at the Cavern Club. He then masterminded The Beatles’ rise to fame, managing them from 1961 to 1967, before dying of a drug overdose at the age of only 32.
However at the moment the makers of A Day In The Life don’t have the rights to any Beatles songs, so they’re off to try and secure them, to add a bit of authentic kudos to their film. However that’s a notriously tough challenge, so the makers are already talking about how the film is more about the formation of the band than their world domination, which gives them more of a out if they can’t get the music rights.
It seems The Beatles are bigger now than at any time since the 60s. Album remasters are coming, The Beatles: Rock Band is out soon, Robert Zemeckis wants to make a 3D motion-capture version of Yellow Submarine, and Sam Taylor Wood’s Nowhere Boy, about the early life of John Lennon, is closing the London FIlm Festival. Maybe it’s just become easier to work with The Beatles back catalogue than it used to be, but there’s little doubt that at the moment anything and everything related to the Fab Four is hot property.