Yesterday nearly rid the world of Tom Cruise, too

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Danny Boyle’s Yesterday begins with a weird worldwide power outage that strips all but one person’s memory of The Beatles, taking its lead character on a whirlwind journey that finds him recreating their catalog in the year of our lord 2019. But with Paul, John, George, and Ringo never recording songs like “Paperback Writer,” “Eleanor Rigby,” or “Yellow Submarine,” what impact could that have on other things in the world? In an interview with Huffington Post, screenwriter Richard Curtis discusses a few other things that they thought to change in this world. One scrapped idea was Tom Cruise never having made it in Hollywood.