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K.J. Yossman Despite recently losing its director just three weeks into shooting, “Midas Man,” the music biopic about The Beatles’ wunderkind manager Brian Epstein, has now cast its fab four.John Lennon will be played by Jonah Lees (“The Letter for the King”), Paul McCartney by Blake Richardson (“Eleven Days”), George Harrison by Leo Harvey Elledge (“Creation Stories”) and Ringo Starr by newcomer Campbell Wallace.

recently left the project earlier this month after production had already begun. Jonathan Wakeham wrote the screenplay based on a screen story by Brigit Grant.Filming is taking place now in Los Angeles.

Deadline previously reported was due to some of the Swedish director’s other work commitments getting in the way of the project. Production hopes to resume by the end of this month.

A biopic of music visionary, impresario and iconic The Beatles manager Brian Epstein is in the works, with Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlund tapped to direct it. Midas Man will chartEpstein's role in the cultural revolution of the 1960s and highlight his unparalleled yet often uncelebrated influence on pop music.