Award-winning producer and writer, Vivek J. Tiwary, is set to write and produce a feature film adaptation of his upcoming graphic novel, The Fifth Beatle, which chronicles the life of The Beatles little-known manager, Brian Epstein. As Paul McCartney said, "If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian." This groundbreaking project also marks the first time a feature film about the band has ever secured rights to include Beatles songs.

Tiwary has signed a deal with Sony/ATV (who control the John Lennon/Paul McCartney music catalog) which gives him unprecedented access to Beatles songs for the film.

The graphic novel, The Fifth Beatle, is being written by Tiwary and drawn by fan-favorite artist Andrew Robinson (Star Wars, Batman, Superman) with additional contributions by multiple Eisner and Harvey award-winning artist Kyle Baker (Plastic Man, Why I Hate Saturn, Nat Turner). It is slated to be published in 2013. Both Robinson and Tiwary will attend the upcoming New York Comic Con from October 10th-14th to present the graphic novel and meet fans. Artwork from the novel will be exclusively displayed online at TheFifthBeatle.com.

On Wednesday, October 10 at 7pm, Tiwary and Robinson will appear on the panel "A Celebration of Pop Music Comics" at Jim Hanley's Universe store. They will then sign exclusive artwork from The Fifth Beatle at New York Comic Con's Dark Horse booth at the Javitz Center on Friday, October 12th at 5pm.

The Fifth Beatle from M Press Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, recounts the untold true story of Epstein, the brilliant visionary who discovered The Beatles and helped guide the band to international stardom as their manager, securing their first record deal at a time when no one else was interested, and successfully bringing them to the world stage with a scale and scope no music impresario had ever attempted.

Epstein's boast-"The Beatles will be bigger than Elvis!"- seemed absurd in 1961, but proved humbly prophetic by 1967. When he died at the age of 32, he was an extremely successful artist manager and entertainment impresario, but a painfully lonely young man. The film will deal with Epstein's struggles with his sexuality and religion, while desperately trying to fit into the "Fab Four's" world. Here's what Vivek J. Tiwary had to say about this compelling story.

"My interest in the Brian Epstein story began almost 20 years ago, when I decided that music management was the area of the entertainment industry that I first wanted to pursue. I had been a lifelong Beatles fan, so I thought that it made sense to study the management of the band that had written the rules of the modern music industry. What I unearthed after much research (there is a paltry amount of information readily available on Brian, which is part of why I want to bring his story to the world) was not just an inspirational business story and a blueprint for what I wanted to accomplish with my career, but also a very human story. This is a true labor of love, passion project for me."

Tiwary is represented by David Alpert and Lawrence Mattis at Circle of Confusion.