Paul McCartney’s Lost Sci-Fi Movie Treatment Found

Story by Martin Kielty

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Legendary musician Paul McCartney's lost sci-fi movie treatment, co-written with Isaac Asimov, is finally unearthed after decades of obscurity.

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The treatment, titled 'Five and Five and One,' was a failed collaboration between McCartney and Asimov, with the musician disliking the renowned sci-fi writer's developed concept.
The documents, recently discovered in Asimov's archives, reveal McCartney's original pitch involving shape-shifting aliens impersonating his post-Beatles band Wings, a premise that Asimov deemed as 'good stuff' that McCartney 'couldn't recognize.'

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Paul McCartney, Isaac Asimov, Wings, Five and Five and One