With a Veronica Mars and Heroes connection

#5 THE BEATLES MOVIE REVIVAL CONTINUES WITH A LIFE IN THE DAY

With The Beatles: Rock Band prepares to invade stores and living rooms next month, Hollywood is likewise continuing to find ways to bring the Beatles back to the big screen. In England, filming wrapped earlier this year on Nowhere Boy, a biopic about John Lennon’s youth, and last week, Robert Zemeckis announced plans for his next CGI motion capture movie to be a remake of Yellow Submarine. And now, producer David Permut (Captain Ron, Face/Off) has optioned the rights to A Life in the Day, a biopic script about Brian Epstein, the wunderkind manager who plucked them from Hamburg and set them on the course to stardom, shepherding their careers until his death from drug overdose in 1967, a point at which one could argue was really the beginning of the end for the band as a functioning unit. Brian Epstein is also just the latest figure that Permut is developing a biopic about, along with projects about comedian Sam Kinison, automobile mogul John DeLorean and Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker. A Life in the Day was written by Tony Gittleson, whose primary career is as a first assistant director on TV shows like Veronica Mars and Heroes.

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