On the same day that Disney+ released Peter Jackson’s three-part docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, the upcoming biopic Midas Man revealed its cast and first look images of the Fab Four.The Letter for the King’s Jonah Lees (John Lennon), Eleven Days’ Blake Richardson (Paul McCartney), Creation Stories’ Leo Harvey Elledge (George Harrison), and newcomer Campbell Wallace will all play Beatles manager Brian Epstein (Queen’s Gambit star Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) (Ringo Starr).
The production of the film, which also stars Jay Leno as Ed Sullivan, was recently halted due to a director change. Out goes Jonas Kerlund, who won a Grammy for Paul McCartney’s “Live Kisses” in 2014, and in comes Sara Sugarman (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen).
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