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A big-screen story about The Beatles will be told through four films , each from the perspective of one of the Fab Four and starring Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson and Joseph Quinn. Director Sam Mendes is making the films about the legendary band and he has revealed the biopics will be released in April 2028, in what he describes as the first “bingeable moment in cinema”. Mescal will star as Paul McCartney, Keoghan will play Ringo Starr, Dickinson will portray the late John Lennon, and Quinn is on board as the late George Harrison.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Speaking at Sony’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas on Monday, Mendes said it would take him more than a year to shoot all four movies and did not confirm in which order they would be released. The 59-year-old director hailed The Beatles as possibly the “most significant band of all time” who had “redefined the culture and stayed with you for a lifetime”. The Skyfall filmmaker said he had dreamed of the project for a long time.
“I had been trying to do a film for years, but I finally gave up (because the) story was too big for one film,” he said. Noting a TV series did not seem quite right, he said: “There had to be a way to tell the epic story for a new generation ..
. I can assure you there is still plenty left to explore and I think we found a way to do that.” Assembled together for the first time, the four actors then quoted Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as they told the audience in Las Vegas: “It’s wonderful to be here, it’s certainly a thrill, you’re such a lovely audience, we’d like to take you home with us.
” Ridley Scott had previously let slip that Mescal would star in the films, while Starr himself had teased Keoghan had been cast as him, and both Dickinson and Quinn had been linked with the project before the formal announcement. The movies have the approval of the surviving Beatles, McCartney and Starr, and of Lennon and Harrison’s families. It marks the first time both them and rights holders Apple have granted a scripted film full life story and music rights.
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