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May 21, 2020 · “Jack is a terrific writer, but he’s also a great high concept guy,” says Trey Ellis, a screenwriter and friend of Barth’s who knew him from the Stanford Chaparral and had read early ...
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Jack Barth is an Anglo-American writer. He has written for film, television, books and magazines, and is also a television producer. He is best known for creating the story that was the basis for the 2019 film Yesterday and his claim that Richard Curtis falsely took credit for key elements of Barth's original screenplay, "Cover Version."
May 23, 2020 · Jack Barth says his original script, Cover Version, had a tone that wasn’t as light-hearted 2019’s Yesterday. Barth can best be described as a struggling writer. Having spent 40 years in the industry and writing 25 unproduced screenplays, Barth sold Cover Version to Working Title Films at 62-years-old.
May 22, 2020 · Jack Barth says his original script, Cover Version, had a tone that wasn’t as light-hearted 2019’s Yesterday. Barth can best be described as a struggling writer. Having spent 40 years in the industry and writing 25 unproduced screenplays, Barth sold Cover Version to Working Title Films at 62-years-old.
- Working Title and Richard Curtis
- A Twist of Fate
- Closing Tribeca
“You’ll never get the f*cking rights for that,” thought the cynical side of Working Title co-founder and producer Tim Bevan when he first heard about the project from Nick Angel. “It’s not an obvious one – it would either work well or wouldn’t work at all.” The project came to Working Title with Four Weddings And A Funeralwriter Richard Curtis alre...
The next crucial part of the jigsaw was finding a director. Curtis had directed three times before (Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked, and About Time), but was in no rush to take the reins. “He said he didn’t get as much pleasure out of directing as writing,” Bevan explains. ”He enjoyed the quasi producer-writer role, which he did on Four Wedding...
Yesterday was selected as the closing film for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York, where it will have its world premiere on Saturday, May 4. The festival will give the film a publicity boost ahead of its US release via Universal on June 28. The UK rollout on the same date will be crucial to its prospects, says Bevan. “If these films don’...
May 23, 2020 · In an interview with Uproxx, screenwriter Jack Barth talks about his original script, titled “Cover Version,” and the difference in tone it had from the final product. As Barth puts it, the original story was about the struggles of a singer-songwriter who, despite being the only person who remembers the Beatles and was passing their songs ...
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For those who don't know, the concept for the movie 'Yesterday' was based on a screenplay by a writer named Jack Barth. He did not have a good experience dealing with the movie industry, you can read more about that here: https://uproxx.com/movies/jack-barth-interview-yesterday-writer-richard-curtis/. Anyway, yesterday (heh) Jack posted his ...
