Telstar: The Joe Meek Story is a 2008 film adaptation of James Hicks' and Nick Moran's play Telstar, about record producer Joe Meek.

A music-infused drama about Joe Meek tone deaf songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits “Have I the Right” “Just Like Eddie” “Johnny Remember Me” and “Telstar.” Set against a backdrop or early 60's London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer Joe Meek.

A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal early success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of the time – before bad luck depression heartbreak and paranoia forced him into murder and suicide.

The film charts Meek's initial success, his homosexuality which was illegal in the UK at the time, and his struggles with debt, paranoia and depression, which culminated in the killing of his landlady Violet Shenton and himself, on 3 February 1967.