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Cameras are officially rolling connected Hamburg Days, a prestige play bid chronicling nan early years of The Beatles.
W&B Television, Turbine Studios, and co-financier AGC Television person announced who will beryllium playing nan Liverpool legends successful nan six-part drama, which is backed by German web ZDF and has been acquired by nan BBC.
The biopic is based connected Klaus Voormann’s book of nan aforesaid name. Voormann, a musician and artist, was a adjacent companion of nan set successful nan early 1960s. He lived pinch Ringo Starr and George Harrison and designed nan screen of nan Beatles album Revolver.
Hamburg Days will prima Rhys Mannion (It Is In Us All) arsenic John Lennon, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Ellis Murphy arsenic Paul McCartney, newcomer Harvey Brett arsenic George Harrison, Louis Landau (Rivals) arsenic Stu Sutcliffe, newcomer Patrick Gilmore arsenic Pete Best, Luna Jordan (Wild Republic) arsenic Astrid Kirchherr, Casper von Bülow (Druck) arsenic Klaus Voorman, Laura Tonke (22 Lenghts) arsenic Nielsa Kirchherr, Trystan Pütter (Ku’damm 56-63), and Max von der Groeben (Fack Ju Göhte).
Created by showrunner showrunner Christian Schwochow (The Crown) and caput writer Jamie Carragher (Succession), here’s nan logline: “Set successful nan 1960s, successful nan smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg’s St. Pauli red-light district, an inexperienced young stone ‘n’ rotation set from Liverpool collide pinch 2 young artists, Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr. Together, they thief spark a translator that turns a scrappy group of teenagers into nan top euphony arena nan world has ever known: The Beatles.”
Hamburg Days was developed by Benjamin Benedict. Schwochow is directing pinch Laura Lackmann (Call my Agent Berlin), while Frank Lamm (Andor) is director of photography. Voormann is a advisor to nan show.
Executive producers are Benedict, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann of W&B Television; Andrew Eaton and Justin Thomson of Turbine Studios and AGC’s Stuart Ford; Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr. Isabel Haug of W&B Television and Katharina Haase service arsenic producers. At ZDF, nan task is overseen by Alexandra Staib, Caroline von Senden und Sandra Dettki. Hamburg Days is being produced pinch nan support of nan German Motion Picture Fund, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.
AGC International is handling worldwide income extracurricular nan UK and Germany.
