Director: Joe Stephenson
Behind nearly every band that defined 1960s pop stood a manager nobody remembers, and "Midas Man" sets out to correct that for one of them: the Liverpool music entrepreneur who found four unknown musicians in a cellar club and turned them into a global phenomenon.
What is Midas Man about?
The film opens on a specific afternoon in November 1961, when Brian walks down a narrow staircase into a cramped Liverpool cellar venue and hears a local band play for the first time. What follows traces how a record-shop manager with no background in the music industry became the architect behind one of the most consequential careers in twentieth-century pop, negotiating contracts, managing egos, and fighting for recognition in an industry that was often reluctant to credit him. Rather than treating its subject as a footnote to more famous names, the film centers his ambition, his personal struggles, and the toll of building something enormous while staying largely out of the spotlight himself.
Cast & crew
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd takes the lead role, playing the manager across the arc of his rise, while Eddie Marsan and Emily Watson fill out key supporting parts drawn from the era's music-industry circles. Blake Richardson, Jonah Lees, and Leo Harvey-Elledge appear as members of the band whose sound changed everything, and American television host Jay Leno makes a notable cameo appearance.
Context & significance
Directed by Joe Stephenson, "Midas Man" is a 2024 British biographical drama that arrives amid a wave of music-industry films revisiting the business side of pop history rather than only the performers. Set largely in Liverpool during the early 1960s, it uses period detail, cramped clubs, smoky offices, and provincial record shops to ground a story that eventually reaches an international stage.
Where & how to watch
"Midas Man" streams on K-Time with a Persian-dubbed audio option alongside the original English track. A free K-Time account is required to watch, though this page and its details can be read without logging in. K-Time is built around a Farsi-language viewing experience for Persian-speaking audiences wherever they live.