Original ‘Yesterday’ writer claims Richard Curtis took full credit for The Beatles movie
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nme.comRingo Starr and Paul McCartney both previously expressed their admiration for the film A man who claims he wrote the script for Danny Boyle’s Beatles movie Yesterday has alleged Richard Curtis took all the credit for writing the film’s screenplay.
Jack Barth told Uproxx that he sold the rights to the screenplay, which was originally titled Cover Version and revolved around a struggling musician who discovers he is the only person on Earth to remember the music of The Beatles.
Barth was given a “story by” credit on the eventual film, along with Curtis, but the Love Actually writer himself was solely credited with writing the film’s screenplay. “I didn’t realise Richard was going to do this to me until the week that the film was released,” he
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