EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: It's A wonderful life for Paul McCartney but musical halted over 'creative differences'
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A wonderful Christmas time should be in store for Sir Paul McCartney, who has just completed his Got Back world tour - which saw him reunite with his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. While Sir Paul, 82, shows no sign of slowing down, with plans to finish a new album next year, mystery shrouds the It's A Wonderful Life stage musical he announced he was working on back in 2019.
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It was set to be a glorious collaboration between him and the late theatre impresario Bill Kenwright, who had acquired the rights to Frank Capra's 1946 classic Christmas film. The Oscar-nominated drama starred James Stewart as George Bailey, a suicidal man saved by a guardian angel on Christmas Eve.
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Yet I hear plans for the musical adaptation have been halted after the two Liverpudlian life long friends apparently had creative differences over the production before Kenwright's death in October last year, aged 78. A source tells me: 'Bill was incredibly upset about the outcome of a business meeting between him and Paul because they couldn't agree on how the stage version of It's A Wonderful Life would progress.
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'Paul wanted the production to be focused on music while Bill wanted more action and speaking on stage. It's a shame two great legends couldn't agree on the outcome of the show that they both decided to invest in. 'The project won't see the light of the day.'.
