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‘The Queen’s Gambit’ actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd to play Beatles manager in new film

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The Queen’s Gambit actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is set to play late Beatles manager Brian Epstein in a new film.As first reported in The Daily Mail, the actor, who played chess prodigy and later journalist Townes in Netflix smash The Queen’s Gambit, will play Epstein in the biopic Midas Man, which is to be directed by Jonas Akerlund.Akerlund is a Swedish director best known for working with Madonna on the Grammy award-winning ‘Ray Of Light’ music video as well as with other artists including Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Rammstein and The Prodigy.The unauthorised biography of Epstein, who was the Beatles manager from 1962 until his death in 1967, is set to start filming later this year at Twickenham Studios and on location in London, Liverpool.

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