McCartney Times

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years is in cinemas across the UK from tomorrow (September 15). Ahead of its release, we caught up with its Oscar-winning director, Ron Howard, to talk all things moptop. Received wisdom these days is that The Beatles got cool right about where this film finishes – 1966’s ‘Revolver’ and the experimental things that followed. Did you want to present an alternative argument?Ron Howard: “I think they’re very different [bands]. The prospect of making this film came to me through the team at [The Beatles’ company] Apple Corps. It was described to me as a look at this section of their career, the touring years, and largely, it was motivated by the fact that they had discovered this new footage and these bootleg soundboards that Giles Martin [producer, son of ‘fifth Beatle’ George] felt he could work with. So they were really interested in the live experience and making a movie about just how good they were, how they were the pioneers of the stadium rock tours.”

Source: Director Ron Howard On The Beatles, His Film ‘Eight Days A Week’, And That Time John Lennon Met The Fonz | NME.COM