June 26, 2019

'Yesterday' movie authors - "we’re all imposters"

'Yesterday' is a Beatles movie without the Beatles, with Beatles songs that aren't theirs. It's directed by Danny Boyle ('Trainspotting', 'Slumdog Millionaire') and co-written by Richard Curtis ('Four Weddings and a Funeral', 'Love Actually', 'Notting Hill', and 'Bridget Jones’s Diary'), and the basic plot is about a struggling singer who finds fame singing Beatles songs in a world where nobody knows about the Beatles (electricity outage problem). In an interview with the Rolling Stone, Curtis says he had two basic ideas - “one is that we’re all imposters", and the other - "love" (see above list of movies he wrote, it makes it clear). They also reveal how they managed to get expensive Beatles' songs for less money - since it's covers, and how Ed Sheeran was happy to make fun of himself on-screen...