DC5’s movie sounds like a better movie than Hard Day’s Night.
With The Monkees, I think guitar groups would have emerged even without the Beatles. While the Beatles eventually writing all of their own songs made them more talented, I don’t think that was truly necessary to their success, and someone else could have cobbled together a hugely successful group with more outside help. There were still plenty of rock and roll songs coming out of the Brill Building et al, which the Monkees in fact used to huge success. Beatles had nothing to do with what happened in Motown or Brill Building or other places.
As far as someone coming up with a clutch of Beatles songs or Beatles type songs (without the actual Beatles having existed) in 2021, I think they would fall on largely deaf ears, and be merely a cult act. Ask yourself, if Elton John or Billy Joel had the same treatment, disappear them from their 1970s-1980s timeline and plop them down today, would they be huge hits? I don’t think so. I think John and Joel did leverage a lot of what the Beatles did in producing hit friendly pop rock and roll, but I think that time has passed now.
I don’t think it would make nearly as good a movie. Watching a guy be bitter that he wasn’t as famous as he thought he should be certainly doesn’t make for a very likeable protagonist. Watching a guy bite off more than he can chew allows him to remain the good guy.
There’s nothing in the article that I quoted that says the guy became bitter, although it’s possible.
The predominant emotion would be frustration, and the audience could root for him as he struggles to achieve mainstream success. Ultimately, he could come to peace with the lack of superstardom. There could still be a romantic interest, a money-hungry agent, and the conversation with Lennon.
They’re seeking damages on behalf of the people who paid to see it.
I watched it in theaters and rented it. I’ve never heard of this actress, but if money’s involved, can I get in on that? I could use money to repair my roof.
Interesting. I agree with Universal. This opens the door to a lot of lawsuits. If you can sue over the trailer, can suing over a shitty movie be far behind?
At the time they made Yesterday, and created the trailer and then later cut out De Armas’s scenes, very few people HAD heard of her. She’d had some roles, but she wasn’t a star.
It was around the same time she had an actual lead turn in “Knives Out,” and then she became really famous.
This just bolsters Universal’s point; it’s not as if they dangled an A-list start like Taylor Swift or Tom Cruise as the star of the show and the pulled a bait and switch.
