Hamburg or bust?

Perhaps I shouldn't have given them the idea of remaking Backbeat... I'd add that a still image isn't proof of principal photography, and the entire thing is based around the idea that they still own the publishing rights to songs from Please Please Me. Much like Backbeat, it'll be lame covers, not master recordings. To compare and contrast, Sir Peter made nifty little documentaries to announce that he'd begun shooting the Hobbit films way back in the early 2010's. - While we can't stop them based on the Lennon-McCartney IP, I think that there might be an avenue to stop them via the McCartney-Michelina IP. We wrote a fairly chunky bit of Hamburg into Beatles Invade New Zealand! That was at Sir Peter's behest: he's done a lot of work relating to that part of the story. This wouldn't count for much normally, but in this case we know that they were aware of the script, and there's also documentation that I was telling them to make one film that used those sequences in order to avoid getting sued. I'm no IP lawyer, but I think that opens the door to an injunction. - My guess is that they've heeded my advice and are going to write new films that barely involve the Beatles IP by focussing on the peripheral figures and the internecine fights between the Fab Four and their lovers/managers/rivals/hangers-on. That was always their plan, but then they were going to use those lame scripts and films to force McCartney and Ono to licence the hits. Hamburg barely requires Beatles branding (if at all). That's what they're relying on. The branding only became important when Brian became their manager, and most of it was essentially his idea.