Paul McCartney’s Man on the Run isn’t a “Beatles legend” victory lap — it’s the messy 1970s fight to become Paul again. Director Morgan Neville says the film lives in that bruising stretch after the breakup: lawsuits, backlash, “you broke up the Beatles” blame, and Wings trying to exist under a shadow no band could survive. He frames it like a post-divorce identity story — and puts Linda McCartney back where she belongs: not a footnote, but the person who kept Paul standing. And the line that hits? Wings were massive… yet somehow became “the band history forgot.” This doc tries to explain why — and what Paul was running from the whole time.
‘Man On The Run’: Director Morgan Neville On Paul McCartney, Wings, And The Long Shadow Of The Beatles [Interview] The filmmaker traced the Wings years as a fight for self-definition amid backlash, grief, and the long aftershock of The Beatles’ breakup. For Morgan Neville—the Oscar-winning filmmaker who’s made a career out of humanizing icons in “20 … Read more