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Jack Barth is an Anglo-American writer. He has written for film, television, books and magazines, and is also a television producer. He is best known for creating the story that was the basis for the 2019 film Yesterday and his claim that Richard Curtis falsely took credit for key elements of Barth's original screenplay, "Cover Version."
May 21, 2020 · Jack Barth was a 62-year-old comedy writer who sold his script about a world where only he remembers the Beatles. But he was shocked to see Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle turn it into a rom-com with a different ending.
Jack Barth is a British-American writer, producer and director who has worked on shows like The Simpsons, Funny, Furry and Famous, and Fights, Camera, Action! He has also written several satirical books and been nominated for a BAFTA award.
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May 22, 2020 · Jack Barth says his original script, Cover Version, had a tone that wasn’t as light-hearted 2019’s Yesterday. Barth can best be described as a struggling writer.
Jun 28, 2019 · “Yesterday” began several years ago with a script — at one point called “Cover Version” — written by Jack Barth and Mackenzie Crook; Crook, a star of Britain’s “The Office” and the “Pirates of...
May 3, 2019 · At a networking event one evening, he met Emily Wraith, an agent from Berlin Associates, who began talking to him about a script written by one of her clients, Jack Barth.
May 22, 2020 · Jack Barth, who wrote the script that served as the inspiration for the 2019 musical comedy Yesterday, has accused the filmmaker Richard Curtis of “taking credit for everything”.
