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Four biopics on legendary band 'The Beatles' starring Paul Mescal lock April 2028 for release

By IANS | Updated: April 1, 2025 12:11 IST

Los Angeles, April 1 Director Sam Mendes is in the process of making four movies based on the ...

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Los Angeles, April 1 Director Sam Mendes is in the process of making four movies based on the legendary rock band ‘The Beatles’.

What’s even more thrilling is that all four of them will be released theatrically in April 2028, reports ‘Variety’.

The filmmaker, who announced the news at CinemaCon, also confirmed the much-speculated casting. Paul Mescal is playing Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan will star as Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson will put his spin on John Lennon.

As per ‘Variety’, the four stars came out on stage and bowed in the style that the band popularized in their heyday.

Sam Mendes promised that the multi-part biopic, officially titled ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event’, will be the “first binge-able theatrical experience”. It’s unclear whether that means the movies will be released all at once or one per week.

“We need big cinematic events to get people out of the house”, the director told theater owners on Monday at Sony’s presentation.

The director, whose credits include ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Skyfall’, had dreamed of bringing the Fab Four to screens for years. But he didn’t want to make a mini-series and he worried that “the story was too huge to fit into a single movie”.

So he came up with a plan to tell the story of “the greatest band in history” from the perspective of each of its members, to try to capture their improbable journey from Liverpool to the center of global culture.

That meant four standalone features and one of the biggest bets in movie history. “It’s a chance to understand them more deeply”, Sam Mendes promised.

The film is also the first narrative feature to be granted music rights to the Beatles’ extensive catalog of hits such as ‘Strawberry Fields’, ‘Let It Be’, ‘I Am the Walrus’, ‘Yellow Submarine’ and others.

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