Paul McCartney joins director Morgan Neville for Man on the Run screening in Los Angeles
Paul McCartney took questions in Los Angeles on Monday, 28 September after a screening of Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, the documentary that follows his career after the Beatles.
The evening paired archive material with a live conversation about a decade that reshaped his working life. The Academy Museum screening was followed by a question-and-answer session with McCartney and director Morgan Neville, hosted by comedian and filmmaker Judd Apatow, according to Billboard.
The film is directed by Neville, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. It covers roughly 1968 to 1980. That stretch takes McCartney from Beatles frontman to solo artist to leader of Wings, the band he formed after the Beatles split.
The period is tight. It starts in the closing years of the Beatles and stays with McCartney as he rebuilds his musical life in the 1970s, including his work on stage and in the studio with Wings.
The film draws on never-before-seen footage of McCartney, his family and Wings. It also features stories told by McCartney himself alongside his daughters Stella McCartney and Mary McCartney, former Wings members Denny Laine, Laurence Juber and Joe English, and fellow musicians Mick Jagger and Chrissie Hynde.
The Los Angeles event continued a long rollout. The project debuted at the Telluride Film Festival before its dates in select cinemas worldwide from Thursday, 19 February. McCartney's official site lists it under its full title, Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, with a dedicated Films page, after first presenting it as a new film coming in February 2026.
It is now available on Amazon Prime, which gives the documentary its widest window so far. The move from festival premiere to cinema dates to streaming is a familiar path for music films seeking both an event launch and a broad audience.
The Associated Press has described Neville's film as a kind of sequel to Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back, the series built around studio footage from January 1969, in a review by Film Writer Jake Coyle, according to Associated Press.
What makes this stand out for new viewers is the focus. Rather than retell the Beatles story from the start, it stays with the decade when McCartney had to start again, form a new band and find a different way to work. The timeline keeps the story close to home, studio and stage, not the full sweep of a long career.
