Philip Norman recently released his bio of George Harrison, his third bio of individual Beatles. (Poor Ringo.) Maybe they can hire him to write the movies, since he’s already delved into their individual perspectives.
More looking forward to a decade or so into the future, when they’ve churned through the Four bio-pics, reworkings of Help! and Hard Day’s Night and are scratching around for other product to exploit.
Expect to see the the Ballad of Desmond and Molly Jones or a comedy-horror movie themed around Maxwell Silver Hammer.
Breaking new ground with this exciting, untold story about young moptops invading America. Important and innovative artists to be sure. And no doubt they have some differences in background and temperament and experiences. But surely, far more similarities? I presume a lot of the focus is Beyond Beatles?
I just hope they don’t keep trying to milk the BCU for decades like Marvel has and we end up at the point where they’re releasing billion-dollar blockbusters about Billy Preston that don’t make any sense unless I watched the eight-part Badfinger series on Disney+ and read the liner notes in the Smothers Brothers: Age of Spektor soundtrack.
The Pattie Boyd/Harrison/Clapton arc across a few of the films and miniseries, though, was remarked upon for being consistently in-canon in spite of Pattie being recast 7 times. And a that’s not mentioning the cult following behind a never-released cancelled one-shot centered around Mal Evans.
Apparently Robert Zemeckis had a plan to remake Yellow Submarine, and it was going to be utterly bad. The concept art for Jeremy Hillary Boob Phd is an actual boob - a literal breast with arms and legs and a mask-like parody of the original face.
The Fifth Beatles is set for Phase 2, right after the conclusion of the Rutles trilogy but before the Concert for Bangladesh movie. I hear they’re filming a reenactment of the entire show for that one and the director’s cut of Ravi Shankar’s set is gonna be five hours long.