A biopic of music visionary, impresario and iconic The Beatles manager Brian Epstein is in the works, with Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlund tapped to direct it.
Midas Man will chartEpstein's role in the cultural revolution of the 1960s and highlight his unparalleled yet often uncelebrated influence on pop music.
Alongside guiding The Beatles to global domination, having famously first heard the band in Liverpool's Cavern Club in 1961, Epstein would also help discover such acts as Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer and Cilla Black, while he would also open a theater to promote and launch the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Cream and Pink Floyd.
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