Yesterday is a film that revolves around a musician who after an accident wakes up in a world that he is the only one who remembers The Beatles!
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about this new film!
- Yesterday is a 2019 British jukebox musical fantasy film
- It is directed by Danny Boyle
- It is written by Richard Curtis
- From a story by Jack Barth and Curtis
- The film stars Himesh Patel
- He plays a musician who, after an accident, finds himself as the only person who remembers The Beatles
- And becomes famous taking credit for writing and performing their songs
- Lily James, Ed Sheeran, and Kate McKinnon also star
- The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on 4 May 2019
- It will be released in the United Kingdom on 28 June 2019, by Universal Pictures
- The film received mixed reviews from critics
- With praise for the light tone and musical sequences
- But criticism at the familiarity and simplicity
- The story revolves around Jack Malik
- He is a struggling singer-songwriter from Clacton-on-Sea whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading
- Despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie
- Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to find out that nobody else on Earth remembers The Beatles
- With the assistance of his steel-hearted American agent, Debra, Jack rises to global fame by performing songs by the band
- However, as his star rises, he risks losing Ellie, the one person who always believed in him
- In March 2018, it was announced that director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis were working together on a musical comedy that would be set in the 1960s or 1970s with Himesh Patel cast in the lead role
- Later that month, Lily James and Kate McKinnon joined the cast
- Boyle informed the surviving members and widows of the band about the film
- He received a reply he described as “lovely” from Ringo Starr
- In April 2018, Ed Sheeran joined the cast and would potentially also write new music for the film
- Which would also include Beatles songs
- Sheeran was confirmed to star later that month
- With Ana de Armas and Lamorne Morris joining the cast
- In May 2018, Sophia Di Martino, Joel Fry and Harry Michell joined the cast
- Filming began on 21 April 2018
- With production in the United Kingdom starting on 26 April 2018
- With scenes filmed all around Suffolk in Halesworth, Dunwich, Shingle Street, Latitude Festival and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex
- A casting call was issued for extras in overnight scenes shot immediately after Sheeran’s four consecutive concerts at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales in May 2018
- A further 5,000 extras were also recruited to appear in scenes shot on Gorleston-on-Sea Beach in Norfolk in June 2018
- Wembley Stadium was also used to film a concert scene
- In February 2019, it was announced that the title of the film was Yesterday
- It cost around $10 million to get the rights for the Beatles’ songs to be featured in the film
- During post-production, Ana de Armas was cut
- The film was initially set to be released on 13 September 2019
- But was moved up to 28 June
- It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on 4 May 2019
- A local premiere of the film took place at the Gorleston Palace cinema on 21 June 2019
- The first official trailer of the film was released on 12 February 2019
- Which included scenes of de Armas who was later cut from the final edit
- In the United States and Canada, Yesterday is projected to gross $10- 15 million from 2,600 theaters in its opening weekend
- On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 65% based on 89 reviews
- With an average rating of 6.41/10
- The site’s critical consensus reads: “Yesterday may fall short of fab, but the end result is still a sweetly charming fantasy with an intriguing- albeit somewhat under-explored – premise”
- On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 54 out of 100
- Based on 28 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
