Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who captured Anya Taylor-Joy s attention on (and off) the chessboard in hit Netflix drama The Queen s Gambit, has played the best move of all by being picked to portray Brian Epstein, the Beatles legendary manager, in a new film that will shoot later this year.
Epstein was dubbed the fifth Beatle by Paul McCartney; and when John Lennon heard of his death, from an accidental overdose in 1967, he declared: He was one of us.
The 33-year-old rising star was chosen for the part in Midas Man (An Unauthorised Autobiography of Brian Epstein) by director Jonas Akerlund.
A Grammy-award winning music video filmmaker, Akerlund is celebrated for his collaborations with Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Madonna; as well as two pictures: Polar, a highly visualised graphic novel adaptation starring Mads Mikkelsen; and Lords Of Chaos, about Norwegian underground satanic band Black Metal. His style always pushes the envelope, Fortune-Lloyd said of the director s wo