Two of Us (2000 television)
| Two of Us | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Mark Stanfield |
| Directed by | Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
| Starring |
Aidan Quinn Jared Harris |
| Theme music composer | David Schwartz |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Robert Aaronson Leon Falk Deborah Ann Henderson |
| Cinematography | Miroslaw Baszak |
| Editor(s) | Norman Buckley |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Distributor | VH1 |
| Release | |
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Two of Us is a 2000 television drama (and the third original VH1 film) 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.
It was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who also directed the 1970 Beatles film, Let It Be) and starred Jared Harris as John Lennon and Aidan Quinn as Paul McCartney. Beatles historian Martin Lewis served as the film's technical adviser, and the screenplay was written by "longtime Beatles fan and Beatlefest attendee, Mark Stanfield."
The title of the film comes from the 1970 Beatles song "Two of Us".
There was great public demand for a Beatles reunion during the 1970s. For example, in September 1976, American promoter Sid Bernstein, who had booked many of the Beatles' historic American appearances in 1964-1966, published a full-page ad in the New York Times publicly requesting the group to reunite and offering millions of dollars. On April 24, 1976, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels parodied such offers with an on-air announcement that he would pay the Beatles $3,000 if they would perform on his program together. He joked, "divide [the money] up any way you want. If you want to give less to Ringo, that's up to you."John Lennon discussed the Saturday Night Live episode, as well as his relationship with McCartney, in a September 1980 interview for Playboy:
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