{"id":101912,"date":"2025-10-28T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/101912\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:31:14","slug":"see-paul-mccartney-in-morgan-nevilles-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/101912\/","title":{"rendered":"See Paul McCartney in Morgan Neville’s Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMan on the Run<\/a>,\u201d Oscar winner Morgan Neville<\/a>\u2018s new documentary about Paul McCartney<\/a>, is not a film<\/a> about The Beatles<\/a>. In fact, the story begins the day The Beatles broke up.<\/p>\n

In the first teaser for \u201cMan on the Run<\/a>,\u201d which IndieWire shares exclusively, we hear from McCartney in late 1969 as he begins to wonder what in the world he will do now, and how he can ever live up to anything as good as The Beatles ever again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWings was part of it, but it\u2019s really the story of this person who has been on this ride to outer space with The Beatles. He\u2019s been doing it since he was 17. He\u2019s never known anything else in his adult life, and he has to figure out everything from scratch,\u201d Neville told IndieWire in one of his first interviews discussing the film.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMan on the Run\u201d premiered at Telluride<\/a> this fall and was acquired by Amazon MGM prior to the festival<\/a>. As announced today, the film will be released in theaters on February 18, 2026 and will then drop on Prime Video for streaming on February 27. Neville also revealed exclusively to IndieWire that alongside the film\u2019s release will be a new soundtrack for the documentary of Paul McCartney and Wings music.<\/p>\n

Neville\u2019s film highlights McCartney\u2019s 1970s, when he began the decade living reclusively on a farm away from the press and speculation about The Beatles. It charts his years-long legal battle with American record producer Allen Klein over The Beatles\u2019 music and fortune, how he navigated the perception that he was the one who broke up the band and rumors that he was actually dead, and how he managed to mature from a Liverpool lad into a family man building a life with his first wife, Linda McCartney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But most significantly, it\u2019s a movie about the music. Neville takes us on a journey through how McCartney recorded his intimate, stripped-down solo records like \u201cMcCartney\u201d and \u201cRam,\u201d which were panned by critics in their day, and eventually made it back to the top of the pop charts with Wings for records like \u201cBand on the Run.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe talk about how Paul himself has been coming to terms with what this music means over time, because at the time, a lot of this stuff was very painful for him,\u201d Neville said. \u201cPaul takes a lot of licks in the film. There\u2019s a lot of stuff happening where it\u2019s not working for him. I think Paul now is still processing and still figuring out how he feels about all this, trying to separate what was often painful at the time from how this music has endured. Having just spent years doing a deep dive through this catalog, it\u2019s amazing the amount of incredible work he did through this decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neville said that part of what makes McCartney such a creative genius is that he\u2019s a \u201cdeeply instinctual creator,\u201d one who embraces whatever he\u2019s feeling when something sparks. Sometimes that produces \u201cMaybe I\u2019m Amazed\u201d or inspires him to travel to Africa to record \u201cBand on the Run,\u201d and other times, it has him recording a rendition of \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb\u201d or an Old Hollywood-style musical special alongside a cartoon mouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just makes stuff, and some of it is fantastic and some isn\u2019t, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s there to judge himself,\u201d Neville said. \u201cI think he\u2019s there to make stuff, and I actually find that really inspiring as a creative person, just that ability to not worry about the judgment too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neville began conducting interviews with McCartney and other members of Wings and his family around four years ago, and the resulting film is as remarkably edited and comprehensive as any of Neville\u2019s recent biographical docs, including the two-part Steve Martin documentary, the Mister Rogers film \u201cWon\u2019t You Be My Neighbor?,\u201d and his Anthony Bourdain doc \u201cRoadrunner.\u201d But if \u201cMan on the Run\u201d is still not enough McCartney content for fans, there\u2019s a book about Wings arriving soon that draws from some of Neville\u2019s interviews.<\/p>\n

Neville manages to squeeze some truly intimate anecdotes out of McCartney, who is as widely documented and interviewed as any public figure alive. In \u201cMan on the Run,\u201d McCartney reveals his inner thoughts from when he was in jail in Japan for marijuana possession, potentially facing up to seven years of hard labor, and a story of how he nearly drowned after swimming at a treacherous cliffside resort.<\/p>\n

But what you will not see in \u201cMan on the Run\u201d is the now 83-year-old McCartney on camera<\/a>. Neville made the conscious decision to only include audio interviews of McCartney in the film, and it makes \u201cMan on the Run\u201d that much more vital as a biographical documentary as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you get from being audio-only is [that] it becomes a present-tense story. It feels like you\u2019re living through it as it happens, as opposed to cutting to a much older person reflecting back on when they were young,\u201d Neville said. \u201cOne thing Paul said when we discussed it, he said, \u2018I don\u2019t really want to be an old person in a young person\u2019s story.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the exclusive first teaser for \u201cMan on the Run\u201d above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMan on the Run,\u201d Oscar winner Morgan Neville\u2018s new documentary about Paul McCartney, is not a film about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,878,85,46,67199,67200,397,17403,17405],"class_list":["post-101912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-man-on-the-run","tag-morgan-neville","tag-movies","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}