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MIDAS MAN

By Joe STEPHENSON

Biography - Production 2022

On Thursday 9th November 1961, Brian Epstein descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and changed the world forever.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Biography
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Joe STEPHENSON
- Writer(s)
- Jonathan WAKEHAM
- Cast
- Jacob FORTUNE-LLOYD, Jay LENO, Emily WATSON, Eddie MARSAN, Matt LUCAS, Omari DOUGLAS, Lukas GAGE, Charley Palmer ROTHWELL
- Producer(s)
- Perry TREVERS (Studio POW), Kevin PROCTOR (Studio POW), Trevor BEATTIE, Jeremy CHATTERTON, Richard HOLMES
- Synopsis
- It’s easy to be overshadowed when the other characters in your story are named John, Paul, George and Ringo, but for the first time on film, MIDAS MAN invites ‘the Fifth Beatle’, Brian Epstein, to centre stage.
  
  When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold. Sharply dressed and well-spoken, Brian was hardly the most obvious radical – but being Jewish, closeted, and having grown up as an outsider who had failed at pretty much everything, he was a 26-year old with something to prove, and who wanted to tear up the rulebook.
  
  MIDAS MAN is the emotional, heartfelt and often funny story of how Epstein polished four scruffy lads who were going nowhere and in a matter of months turned them into a global phenomenon; of his unwavering belief in his artists and his tenacity in the face of getting turned down by every big record label; and of the style, guile and charm that allowed him to ‘break’ America and fundamentally change popular culture forever.
  
  Starring The Queen’s Gambit breakout JACOB FORTUNE-LLOYD, and featuring music from Brian’s artists including The Beatles, Gerry and The Pacemakers and Cilla Black, MIDAS MAN explores the forces that drove one of the greatest outsiders of all time to walk a line between unprecedented success and unheralded chaos, all at a price to his personal well-being.
  
  Innovator. Influencer. Impresario. The man with the golden touch.