Sam Mendes's upcoming project, The Beatles: A Four-Film Cinematic Event is truly a beast the likes of which cinema has never seen before. In April 2028, four new biopics – each one focussing on a different Beatle – will release on the same day, giving fans the opportunity to binge them all in the cinema at once.
Mendes is directing all four movies, while three different writers are confirmed to be attached to the project – Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan, and Jack Thorne.
Butterworth is a celebrated Olivier-award-winning playwright and screenwriter who worked with Mendes previously on Spectre. Straughan is fresh from a trio of wins (BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Oscar) for his screenplay for Conclave, and Thorne (Adolescence) is a prolific writer who has collaborated with Mendes in the theatre, when the latter directed his play The Motive and the Cue.
With a wealth of talent behind the scenes (including rewrites at the request of real-life Beatles), it's no surprise that fans are already itching to find out more about the project, despite the movies not coming out for another two years.
It has been confirmed already that all four Beatles will appear in all four films, and that much of the cast will be featuring across the entire quartet.
The list of confirmed actors so far is as follows. Scroll down for more information about the stars.
Harris Dickinson as John Lennon
Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney
Joseph Quinn as George Harrison
Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr
Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney
James Norton as Brian Epstein
Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey
Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono
Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd
Harry Lloyd as George Martin
David Morrissey as Jim McCartney
Leanne Best as Mimi Smith
Bobby Schofield as Neil Aspinall
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill as Mal Evans
Arthur Darvill as Derek Taylor
Adam Pally as Allen Klein
Harris Dickinson plays John Lennon
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