EXCLUSIVE: Midas Man, the biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, has hired a new director as it looks to get back into production as soon as possible.Sara Sugarman, known for directing movies including music comedy Vinyl, Lifetime’s House Of Versace and Disney’s Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen, is newly aboard.As we revealed earlier this month, the movie entered hiatus as producers sought to replace director Jonas Akerlund.
Sources close to production have re-confirmed to us that the ouster largely came about due to a belief that other commitments were getting in the way of Akerlund’s work on Midas Man.
The Swedish filmmaker remains in post-production on Netflix TV series Clark.Akerlund told us today: “I regret that things haven’t
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