Can't stop thinking about the fact that the question we all had when we watched the trailer for Yesterday - why would you assume that singing the Beatles's songs in 2019 would make you an instant star - was the whole point of the original screenplay. https://uproxx.com/movies/jack-barth-interview-yesterday-writer-richard-curtis/

I think this is a particularly cogent point by original screenwriter Jack Barth, about why Richard Curtis changed the trajectory of the story so completely when he rewrote the screenplay.

So much of success is luck. The right people meeting at the right time and producing the right work for its moment. It makes sense that someone who has experienced that success would prefer to view it as inevitable rather than chance.

Of course, the real scandal in that article is that Barth has apparently been screwed out of a co-writing credit by Curtis, and that Hollywood bookkeeping means he hasn't seen a penny of the profits from a film that made $150M.

To be clear, I think it's very likely that the film Barth wrote would not have enjoyed the same kind of success as Yesterday, which was very much a nostalgic, jukebox musical phenomenon. But that doesn't mean he should be erased from the film's history.