Sheeran in Beatles role

WHEN scriptwriter Richard Curtis started thinking about which star he’d like to appear in a film about The Beatles, the answer must have been blindingly obvious – All You Need Is Ed.

And now the chart-topping singer Ed Sheeran is set to land a leading role in Curtis’s new film about the Fab Four.

Ed, 27, is in talks to appear in the new comedy – tentatively titled All You Need Is Love – about a man who wakes up one day to find he is the only person who can remember the songs of The Beatles.

It is understood that he will appear on screen and write new music for the film, which will also include Beatles hits.

A source close to Working Title, the studio that is making the film, said: “Everything Ed touches turns to gold. He is the biggest hit-maker on the planet. If anyone can make a film about the Beatles songs even better musically, it’s him.”

Sheeran is known to be a massive Fab Four fan. In 2014, he took part in The Night That Changed America – a Grammys tribute to mark the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

He performed an acoustic version of In My Life in front of an audience that included Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. McCartney was so impressed with the performance, he later sent Sheeran a guitar signed: “For Ed, who is brilliant.”