Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the long-in-the-works, Morgan Neville-directed Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run and will release the film Feb. 25, 2026, on Prime Video and in select theaters on a date yet to be announced. Man on the Run is premiering this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.
As previously reported, the doc will chronicle McCartney’s post-Beatles years and his 30-year relationship with his late wife Linda. It is drawn from “unprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda’s home videos and photos, as well as new interviews.”
The film begins with McCartney “navigating the aftermath of the break-up of the Beatles, facing down myriad challenges while creating new music that would ultimately become the defining soundtrack of a new decade.” It is said to be “the definitive document of Paul’s emergence from the dissolution of the world’s biggest band, and his triumphant creation of a second decade of musical milestones.”
That second decade was dominated by McCartney’s tenure with Wings, which included Linda on keyboards and became an arena-filling band in its own right thanks to albums such as Band on the Run (1973) and Venus and Mars (1975). McCartney also released acclaimed solo work attributed to himself (1970’s McCartney) or in tandem with Linda (1971’s Ram) before Wings dissolved in 1980. Linda McCartney died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.
Man on the Run heralds a new partnership between McCartney, Universal Music Group and Amazon that will encompass “exclusive music and merchandise drops,” plus “one-of-a-kind commentary from McCartney himself.” Amazon and Audible will also sell McCartney’s book, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, beginning Nov. 4.
McCartney, who turned 83 in June, remains a road warrior. He’ll embark on a fall North American leg of his Got Back tour starting Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, Ca., and has dates are on the books through Nov. 24-25 in Chicago.
