Four Beatles Movies are Coming Together. Here's Everything We Know

Typically, there are a handful of event movies whose release dates and perhaps general characters and plot are known years before their release—your Marvel movies, your Avatars, your animated sequels that take years to properly produce. But it’s unusual for a group of dramas to call their shot four years in advance. That’s just what Sam Mendes and Sony did when they announced in 2024 that a quartet of Beatles biographies were in the works. Currently due out on April 7, 2028—at least two Avengers movies from now—the movies sound sort of like the cinematic equivalent of that mix CD that Ethan Hawke makes out of the band members’ solo songs in Boyhood. Individual films will assume the perspectives of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, seemingly all during the band’s whirlwind decade together, from 1960-1970. Together, they’ll add up to a comprehensive biopic without favoring one band member in particular.

This could be an innovative and egalitarian approach to chronicling a seemingly impossible-to-define creative unit. Or, it could be the natural endpoint of the legal maneuvering that so obviously informs the final cut of so many musician-approved biopics, where narrative villains seem to be designated by committee. (Maybe that was the real reason Bohemian Rhapsody won that Best Editing Oscar: It felt like it must have had at least half a dozen interested parties and their lawyers in the editing room.) Regardless, having this insta-quadrilogy playing in theaters all-together-now will make this project unprecedented; as such, Beatles fans and movie people alike have been following various developments with great interest. The films are currently shooting in the U.K., with production expected to last for much of 2026. Here’s what we know about the cast and crew so far.

John Lennon was just 40 years old when he was shot and killed outside his New York apartment building. If the late 20th century had been as drunk on officially sanctioned musician biopics as the early 21st, we would have had a Yoko Ono-produced career-spanning Lennon movie by 1985 at the latest. That never happened, though Lennon has been played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the pretty decent early-years biopic Nowhere Boy; Paul Rudd, in the biopic spoof Walk Hard; and, in an alt-universe version, an oblique Robert Carlyle in Danny Boyle’s Yesterday.

Source: gq.com/Jesse Hassenger

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