What if no one would remember the Songs of the Beatles – except for a street musician? Director Danny Boyle has made the idea of a movie. In addition to a Newcomer a British Superstar plays.
The basic idea of the movie is original. The Film “Yesterday” begins with a worldwide blackout, 12 seconds all around the globe dark. Just in this Moment the so far not very successful Hobby-guitarist Jack Malik runs with the bike on a Bus, loses two teeth, and is brought to the hospital.
As he comes to, the world is changing – at least, in a fantastic Detail. In the hospital bed, Jack humming a catchy tune of the Beatles in front of him straight through the head – what his Manager and longtime girlfriend Ellie looks at him in amazement. But it gets even better.
The Beatles Song “Yesterday” no one knows…
After Jack left the hospital and his friends a small want to have organized a welcome Party, together, sitting, Jack grabs his guitar, sings and plays the Beatles ‘ Evergreen “Yesterday”. The friends are thrilled. How’d he get on this great Song? The Text, the melody, the whole thing is so simple, how ingenious Arrangement?
Jack (Himesh Patel) sings to his girlfriend and Manager Ellie “new” Beatles Songs
Now it’s up to Jack, looking puzzled. “Yesterday”, every child that is of the Beatles know! But then it turns out: Nobody knows “Yesterday”, no one has ever heard of the Beatles, no “Let it be”, not “She Loves You”, not the century-LP “St. Pepper”. In fact: All of the Beatles records have disappeared from the shelves, no pictures, not a single picture of the four musicians exist, nowhere.
History of the rise of the singing Nobodies to Superstar
This is the crazy situation of the film, actually, far-fetched, but also kind of charming. Director Danny Boyle sends his main characters, Jack Malik, the so far only from a BBC Soap known Himesh Patel embodies, on a surprising journey to musical success. Malik has been playing on his guitar in pedestrian areas and in poorly attended Bars – now he is suddenly sitting on a musical treasure on an unprecedented scale.
The main actor Himesh Patel in conversation with Director Danny Boyle
And actually, he is also embarrassing. With strangers springs and he does not want to decorate. But because no one wants to Believe that there has been a very well known pop group called the Beatles Hits as “Yesterday” or “Let it be” has written, takes the fate of its run. Jack is a Superstar, the genius song-writer, the great halls with thousands of spectators fills.
Recognition and the help he gets from another very well-known song-writer, Ed Sheeran, the plays themselves in the Film. The need to recognize that there is an even more inspired young man on earth who has received the gift of the Hit production, apparently in the cradle.
Danny Boyle: Instead of James Bond, a small music film
Danny Boyle, who won with a Film about music and drugs (“Trainspotting”) to the cult-Director of advancement, whose “Slumdog millionaire” eight Oscars and the last Apple inventor Steve Jobs made an amazingly critical cinematic monument, was actually. as a Director, for the 25 James Bond Film festival booked. But Boyle fell out over the producers. Different artistic views on the design of the new 007 adventure, it said.
Advice from the Superstar: Ed Sheeran (himself) has tips for Jack
So, again, a “small” Film about the music and the wonder of English merits, on province-musician and dreams of great success (writer: Richard Curtis). The filming of “Yesterday” were already finished when the cancellation came for the new Bond film – but somehow, a movie like “Yesterday” fits better to this English Director, who seems to be here again in his profession.
Ed Sheeran is also convincing as an actor
The idea to invent the Beatles in the cinema on the big screen once again has its charm. That succeed in doing this with the game from the main actor Himesh Patel, a young British actor, the Indian and African roots are primarily due to having as well as that of Ed Sheeran. The Superstar appears in “Yesterday” sympathetic and restrained, and the role allows him an ironic look at the career.
The romantic Comedy “Yesterday” tells of big and small Dreams
And, of course, the music contributes to the Success of the romantic Comedy “Yesterday”. Even if it’s not the four legendary mushroom heads are singing more than a dozen Beatles Songs, and play, but the sympathetic Patel personally – some of the magic of this magical Pop-music also is very likely to reach most of the viewers of today.
After the world premiere at the Tribeca festival in New York and individual performances at smaller Festivals in the USA Yesterday “comes” from the 26. June worldwide in the cinemas. Theatrical release in the United States 28. June. In Germany Yesterday is “” from 11. To see July 2019.