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\n\tCameras are officially rolling on Hamburg Days<\/em>, a prestige drama series chronicling the early years of The Beatles.<\/p>\n \n\tW&B Television, Turbine Studios, and co-financier AGC Television have announced who will be playing the Liverpool legends in the six-part drama, which is backed by German network ZDF and has been acquired by the BBC. <\/p>\n \n\tThe biopic is based on Klaus Voormann\u2019s book of the same name. Voormann, a musician and artist, was a close companion of the band in the early 1960s. He lived with Ringo Starr and George Harrison and designed the cover of the Beatles album\u00a0Revolver<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHamburg Days<\/em> will star Rhys Mannion (It Is In Us All<\/em>) as John Lennon, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Ellis Murphy as Paul McCartney, newcomer Harvey Brett as George Harrison, Louis Landau (Rivals<\/em>) as Stu Sutcliffe, newcomer Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best, Luna Jordan (Wild Republic<\/em>) as Astrid Kirchherr, Casper von B\u00fclow (Druck<\/em>) as Klaus Voorman, Laura Tonke (22 Lenghts<\/em>) as Nielsa Kirchherr, Trystan P\u00fctter (Ku\u2019damm 56-63<\/em>), and Max von der Groeben (Fack Ju G\u00f6hte<\/em>).<\/p>\n \n\tCreated by showrunner showrunner Christian Schwochow (The Crown<\/em>) and head writer Jamie Carragher (Succession<\/em>), here\u2019s the logline: \u201cSet in the 1960s, in the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg\u2019s St. Pauli red-light district, an inexperienced young rock \u2018n\u2019 roll band from Liverpool collide with two young artists, Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr. Together, they help spark a transformation that turns a scrappy group of teenagers into the greatest music phenomenon the world has ever known: The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHamburg Days<\/em> was developed by Benjamin Benedict. Schwochow is directing with Laura Lackmann (Call my Agent Berlin<\/em>), while Frank Lamm (Andor<\/em>) is director\u00a0of photography. Voormann\u00a0is a consultant to the show.<\/p>\n \n\tExecutive producers are Benedict, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann of W&B Television; Andrew Eaton and Justin Thomson of Turbine Studios and AGC\u2019s Stuart Ford; Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr. Isabel Haug of W&B Television and Katharina Haase serve as producers. At ZDF, the project is overseen by Alexandra Staib, Caroline von Senden und Sandra Dettki. Hamburg Days <\/em>is being produced with the support of the German Motion Picture Fund, MOIN Filmf\u00f6rderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.<\/p>\n \n\tAGC International is handling\u00a0worldwide sales outside the UK and Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n