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"Peyton Reed will direct an adaptation of The Fifth Beatle. The Dark Horse Comics graphic novel centres around the life of Beatles manager Brian Epstein.  The book&amp;#039;s writer Vivek J Tiwary has written the script for the Yes Man and Bring it On director to tackle. It is the first feature film about The Beatles to secure music rights to the Lennon/McCartney back catalogue. Illustrated by Andrew C Robinson, the book charts the short life of Epstein, who discovered the then-unknown band playing in a basement in Liverpool and helped steer them towards superstardom. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a human story about the struggle to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds - Brian was homosexual when it was a felony to be so, Jewish at a time of anti-Semitism, and from Liverpool when it was just a dingy port town,&amp;quot; reads the official description.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a story about staggering ambition yielding staggering success, through a desire to change the world by messages of love and peace. A story about being an outsider and trying desperately to belong.&amp;quot; Epstein died of a drug overdose in 1967 at the age of 32. Tiwary will produce with Bruce Cohen. The Fifth Beatle will enter production in 2014. Catch up on all the latest TV and Movies releases in Digital Spy&amp;#039;s Screen Time:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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