22-05-2020 22:09 via nme.com

Original ‘Yesterday’ writer claims Richard Curtis took full credit for The Beatles movie

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.
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