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Michael Winterbottom is directing “The Longest Cocktail Party”, about The Beatles

18 October, 2011

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In May 2010, who first raised the “The Longest Cocktail Party”, a film version of Richard DiLello author’s novel was the lead singer of ‘Oasis’ Liam Gallagher, then it is more than one year without new information is published on the biographical drama about the creation and multimedia corporation Apple Corps business of the British rock band “The Beatles”.

Action card is placed in the range 1968 – 1969, when North American student of 23 years old Richard DiLello was hired by Apple Corps press officer Derek Taylor and spent the next two years in corporate offices of Street Savile Row, no. 3, being witness to extraordinary events that wrote music history and making acquaintance with a lot of visitors and staff members with eccentric and bizarre behavior.

With the band “The Beatles’ in the basement of the Apple Studios the artists were exponential like Badfinger, Mary Hopkin and James Taylor, and the roof took place on January 30, 1969 last live concert of the band “The Beatles”, the whose images were used by the director Michael Lindsay-Hogg at the end of the theme music documentary “Let It Be” in 1970.

The two main characters of the film “The Longest Cocktail Party” will be Derek Taylor and Richard DiLello, the first being a journalist from Liverpool, which became very close to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout the years and student who took the U.S. came under his wing protector. The four components of the band will be voices in the background or at the end of the phone line, but will not actually appear as characters in the film, focusing on their music and how that influenced their contemporary generation and future generations.

Co-producer Andrew Eaton has revealed the publishers of The Playlist that hired the talented Jesse Armstrong (“Peep Show”, “In the Loop”, “Four Lions”) to develop the scenario and BAFTA winner Michael Winterbottom (“The Killer Inside Me”, “The Trip”, “A Mighty Heart”, “Jude”) to install at the seat of director.

The major problem is that you cannot make a successful movie about Apple Corps without insert famous songs of the band “The Beatles” and Andrew Eaton acknowledged that the difficulties to win the rights to use music in the film formation, still treading on a minefield.

Find out more about “The Longest Cocktail Party” from IMDB.

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