Okay, all you fans of the movie
Hard Day's Night, let's pretend!
Let's say the Beatles never did replace Pete Best as their drummer. They either used a studio musician or George Martin coached Pete in the way he wanted him to sound. In any case, the music is
irrelevant to this topic.
It's November of 1963 and the Beatles are big... really big! So big that United Artists is going to make a motion picture of the group. So all four of them jump into the London taxi with producer Walter Shenson just as they did-- John, Paul, George, and Pete. And Walter asks, "What type of picture do you want to make?" and the Beatles answer, "We want to make a comedy." And so the plans go ahead to have Alun Owen do a fictional day in the life of the Beatles, just as close to the original script as we can imagine.
So there you have it. 3 moptops and... Pete. Mean, moody, magnificent Pete, who in addition to being a traditionally handsome swoonworthy male, has this head of curls that won't quit and in
no possible way will be tamed into a moptop. We're talking wildly different visuals and wildly different personality, with the handsome factor swinging away from Paul and George to (as rumor would have it) Pete.
Given all this, what will the movie be like? Would it still succeed, still have the humor, the charm, the personalities you have come to love?
Go!