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In the Studio: Richard Curtis – Part one

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Richard Curtis – Part 1

25/06/2019 GMT

Richard Curtis – Part one

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Yasmeen Khan talks to screenwriter Richard Curtis about his latest film Yesterday

Yasmeen Khan talks to award-winning screenwriter Richard Curtis about his film Yesterday, which will be launched in cinemas across the world this month.

This month a new film by the award-winning screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually) will be launched in cinemas across the world. Yesterday is inspired by the music of the Beatles, and although the germ of the idea was not his, the story, its construction and the characters created are all Richard Curtis originals. 

Yasmeen Khan has been talking to Richard as the film developed over the last two years with the various drafts shaped, reshaped and edited. She hears how his first attempts failed to satisfy his fiercest critic, his partner Emma, who also operates as his script editor. There has also been the addition of a director, the Oscar-winning Danny Boyle, who provides another set of ideas that need incorporating. All the while Richard strives to ensure that the music of the Beatles, that has been so important to him throughout his life, should remain at the heart of the final film. 

Presenter: Yasmeen Khan. 
Producer: Tom Alban

(Image: screenwriter Richard Curtis, with kind permission)

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