James Norton set to play Brian Epstein in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles film project

The actor is reportedly in line to play the Beatles’ manager in the 1917 director’s ambitious saga about the Fab Four Happy Valley star James Norton is being lined up to play Beatles manager Brian Epstein in the four-film Sam Mendes biopic of the band, it has been reported. According to Deadline , Norton is to play Epstein, who discovered the Beatles in 1961 and acted as their manager until his death in 1967 . No details have been officially released, and Hollywood studio Sony, which is producing the films, did not comment. Continue reading...