Liam Gallagher Developing A Film About The Beatles

Liam Gallagher is taking a shot at The Beatles. UK’s Daily Mail reports that the former Oasis frontman is developing a film about the Fab Four’s lesser heyday and more so high-days at Apple, their record company at Savile Row Headquarters. Liam attained the rights to Richard DiLello’s 1972 memoir, The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider’s Dairy of The Beatles, Their Million Dollar Apple Empire and Its Wild Rise And Fall. Fancy title, eh?

This memoir details DiLello’s time at Apple as the ‘house hippy.’ He details the band’s ‘stoned’ years that lead to their infamous breakup. Both Liam and his brother Noel have praised the book, so you could only imagine how happy Liam was to get the rights to the source that details the most mysterious time of The Beatles.

The project is set to launch next week during the Cannes Film Festival. Liam has partnered with Revolution Films. Their visit to Cannes seems a bit sketchy, since there is no director or screenwriter on board. This whole project seems like something Terry Gilliam should put his foot in since he’s like the film king of psychedelia.

There are plenty of films based on The Beatles so it’s going to take a lot to make this one pop. The things that this film has going it for one, a musician is the one pushing the project instead of a filmmaker. Secondly, the concept is different, most of the time we get films about The Beatles’ humble beginnings, or their rise to fame with quick summary of their breakup, but never really the juicy details of that breakup. This story tells those juicy details. It’s like getting secrets from a U.S. spy, except the secrets aren’t about nuclear weapons and terrorists plots, it’s about The Beatles.

Do you think this film will be any different from previous ones?