An award-winning director, who has worked with Paul McCartney on music videos, is to direct a major British film about Brian Epstein, the visionary manager and impresario who took the music industry by storm in discovering stars from the Beatles to Gerry and the Pacemakers.
It will tell the story of a Liverpudlian record-shop manager with a talent for forecasting hits and spotting future stars.
Beattie said: “Epstein first met the Beatles in November 1961, when he was 25, and he was dead in August 1967.
He put them in suits and turned their scruffiness into that Beatles look, with the mop-top haircut.”