Based on a screenplay by Brigit Grant and Jonathan Wakeham, the film is directed by Joe Stephenson, after previous directors Sara Sugarman and Jonas Åkerlund moved on from the project.

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd stars in the lead role, alongside Darci Shaw, Ed Speleers, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Eddie Marsan and Emily Watson.

Blake Richardson, Jonah Lees, Leo Harvey-Elledge, Campbell Wallace and Adam Lawrence play the Beatles.

Brian gets numerous requests from teenage girls for the German single "My Bonnie" by a Liverpudlian group called the Beatles.

Decca executive Dick Rowe questions why a man like Brian would give up his comfortable middle-class lifestyle for such a group.

In 1964, Brian travels to America to book the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, and meets a struggling actor named Tex Ellington.

He takes Cilla as his date to his brother Clive's wedding, and confides that he thinks his father is ashamed of him; she asks why he doesn't have a special someone in his life.

An issued statement made the claim that filming would continue that same month in London and move to Los Angeles, California, in early January.

[28] The Guardian gave the film 3/5 stars, calling it an "uneven but well-meaning biopic" and writing: "Lashings of archive footage and obvious theatrical techniques such as split-screen projections and fourth-wall breaking monologues to camera from Fortune-Lloyd help to distract from the fact that the budget isn’t sufficient to recreate key moments in the Beatles’ history ... It’s all a bit too sanctified and safe – lacking in rock’n’roll edge perhaps – but Fortune-Lloyd’s core performance is deeply empathic".

[29] The Daily Telegraph also awarded 3/5 stars, calling the film a "superficial yet rip-roaring biopic" and writing: "A more thoughtful character study would have been obliged to venture into the “fifth Beatle’s” psyche and unpick his struggles with his homosexuality and with the drug use that resulted in a fatal overdose at the age of 32.

It would also have to get under the skin of the band he helped usher to global fame rather than, as is the case with Joe Stephenson’s rudimentary biopic, portray them as mere cut-outs, Bootleg Beatles-style cheeky chappies – a triumph of wigs and beards over perceptive screenwriting.

"[30] NME gave the film 2/5 stars and wrote: "Midas Man has some empathy for its subject and a warm performance from Emily Watson as his mother Queenie, but no real curiosity about what made him tick.

"[31] The Jewish Chronicle wrote "The film is pleasingly awash with 1960s period style and is anchored by Fortune-Lloyd’s moving portrait of a gay man tragically isolated, assaulted and blackmailed because of his homosexuality.

"[25] Rolling Stone was largeely critical of the film, writing "A few fresh angles — like the moments Epstein breaks the fourth wall and addresses us directly on the plot — can’t quite compensate for the movie’s conventionality.