Stories about the Beatles have been rehashed so many times that it seems almost impossible that anything new could come out about them. But I'm actually willing to give a shot to A Life in the Day, a biopic about the life of Brian Epstein, the band's manager from 1961 until 1967, until he died of a drug overdose.
Producer David Permut picked up the script by Tony Gittelson, which he told Varety might include some of the band's songs, but will actually focus on their formation. Said Permut, ""Everybody turned down the band, even though Brian promised they would become bigger than Elvis, and he finally got George Martin at EMI to change his mind and give them an audition."
It really would be interesting to see the band's rise to fame without a focus on the relationship between the members, and given Epstein's early death, it might address the 60s drug culture with something less than rose-colored glasses. I still maintain that the Beatles are overexploited for pure commercial reasons, but if there's a good story to tell here, why not?
