Two of Us

Two of Us (2000)

The bitter break-up. The unexpected encounter. The legend lives on.

In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Paul is still on top of the music world, reaching #1 with his new band, Wings. John, however, has retired from public life, choosing to raise his son, Sean. Rumors are rampant that The Beatles are going to reunite to play a concert. Paul, the consummate entertainer, is intrigued by the possibilities. But John, still fighting his inner demons, is content keeping Beatlemania a thing of the past. But even though the two men are still at odds over the band, they rediscover that they still have bonds from the past that will never go away.

Date of release
2000-02-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (26)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie, Romance
Director
Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Casting

Interesting facts

Two of Us is a 2000 television drama which offers a dramatized account of April 24, 1976, six years after the break-up of the Beatles and the day in which Lorne Michaels made a statement on Saturday Night Live offering the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on his program. The film premiered on VH1 on February 1, 2000.

Production

Jim DeRogatis interviewed Lindsay-Hogg about his involvement with the film. Lindsay-Hogg stated that he became involved with the project because of the screenplay:

[The screenplay] wasn't so much about The Beatles. It was a very good script in which the agency of these two famous people and their story takes you somewhere deeper. To me, that's the nature of friendship: how we grow, how we grow up, and how things change. These boys knew each other when they were 16, and now they're 35, and they have to find a new truth.

Of the screenplay, he further stated, "Mark Stanfield is a good writer and a Beatles fan who has a lot of knowledge [...] Some of that stuff was ad-libbed by the actors because they really got into this, but Mark also wrote characters instead of stereotypes or caricatures."

In another interview, Stanfield discussed the decision to create a fictionalized account of actual people: "I didn't give it a lot of thought. Certainly, it's been done before, from Shakespeare through something like Melvin and Howard. And more recently, in films like Gods and Monsters. Shakespeare in Love, for that matter."

The film's technical advisor, Beatles historian Martin Lewis, conducted extensive research, drawing upon both his and Michael Lindsay-Hogg's personal knowledge of the band:

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