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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."
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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 21, 2020 · For years, Jack Barth had managed to eke out a living as an itinerant comedy writer. Over the course of his career, the former editor of Stanford’s humor magazine had co-authored a series of ...
- 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 22, 2020 · Writer Jack Barth opens up about how his vaguely depressing script, Cover Version, was bought and turned into 2019's romantic comedy, Yesterday.
May 22, 2020 · This week, Uproxx published an interview with Jack Barth, a 62-year old writer who penned the draft upon which Yesterday was based. Called Cover Version, his script was acquired by Working...
Yesterday is a 2019 jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Richard Curtis based on a story by Jack Barth and Curtis. Himesh Patel stars as struggling musician Jack Malik, who suddenly finds himself as the only person who remembers the Beatles and becomes famous for performing their songs.
Feb 29, 2024 · Consequently, the film is rich in the relatability factor, but its base premise of a Beatles-less world is entirely an original idea. Richard Curtis, who wrote the film’s screenplay alongside Jack Barth, formed an early interest in the popular English rock band.
