Yerblues, it's nothing you've done personally, but I must take issue here with a few buzz words and terms printed in the article you copy/pasted, buzz words that are commonly used by the media as hype, and not necessarily what this movie will focus upon (as I understood it from Vivek):
1. "biopic"Vivek makes it clear that this film will use Brian's actual life as a starting point, and then he plans to make respectful yet quirky ~ "psychedelic" if you will ~ enhancements and side-"trips" (pardon the pun). Also, the movie will cover only the last six years of his life, so that would not make it a "biopic" by any stretch, either.
Here's how he describes it in the Introduction to his blog:
...with "The Fifth Beatle" I've tried to capture what I think is the essence of the man-- the poetry and inspiration and feeling behind the Brian Epstein story. I'll make no illusion about presenting an absolute "truth." The entertainment business is one of professional fabulations after all. That conflicting and selective memories and information exist is to be expected. Trying to uncover the "truth" is a fool's task. But I have tried to remain faithful to facts and history, while also using fantasy and dreams to convey this fantastic yarn, as only fantasy and dreams can do.
...plus that makes it so much more fun! 
(I love the way he thinks.)
2. "...unearth(ing)
secrets about the
gay svengali"
Hype words that carry lurid connotations. I do not appreciate the labeling nor the innuendo.
During Vivek's encounters and long shmoozing sessions with the various closely Eppy-connected people, he has certainly "uncovered" some privileged info, much of which I am sure will make it into
The Fifth Beatle.
However, Vivek had recently messaged to assure me that in no way would he ever be anything but respectful toward Brian's memory ~ he would prefer not to do the movie at all in that case. We both are aware that Brian's sexual life was quite sordid in many instances, but although these episodes may be alluded to in the movie (I don't know), there will be no
degrading, porny focus on that private side of him; indeed, I do not expect any nonsense such as the
Hours and Times-type of false fantasizing or the Goldman/Brown sleazy guesswork-stated-as-fact.
3. "It's definitely possible that
'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away' is about Brian."
I will accept "definitely possible." Still, we cannot say for sure, can we? Only a moron states certainty in that which is unprovable.
The fact remains that no Beatle, including John himself, has EVER put it on record that
"Hide Your Love" was written about Brian ~ indeed that they have written ANY of their songs with Brian in mind.
Yes, I am aware of (and have an mp3 of) the insulting bootleg ditty leaked from one of their recording sessions, which was dubbed
Brian Epstein Blues {
Here's a 2008 post on this board about that one }
but it's obvious this wasn't meant as a "song" and it wasn't actually "written" so much as it was spontaneously spewed out like a mouthful of sour milk.
So yes, as Vivek says,
"Hide Your Love" may well HAVE been written about Brian ~ but the people who keep spreading this and other urban myths as if they're gospel
truth disgust me.
To get back to articles about Vivek's music rights and funding
score!-ohhh-yeahhh:
Even though Steve also labels it a "biofilm," so far I think the most legitimate coverage of Vivek's movie breakthrough comes from one of the most accurate Beatles journalists around, Steve Marinucci of
Abbeyrd's Beatles Page, in his
Beatles Examiner column in Examiner.com ~
www.examiner.com/beatles-in-national/brian-epstein-biofilm-gets-ok-to-license-beatles-songs
***The Fifth Beatle movie! *** 
