Sam Mendes is making four Beatles movies — and all four will be released theatrically in April 2028.
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. The four stars came out on stage at the Las Vegas-based trade show for cinema operators and bowed in the style that the band popularized in their heyday.
The Beatles biopics will be about the lives of the four members of the famed Liverpool brand — George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney. The movies will follow the individual stories of the members from the formation of the group in 1960 until their split in 1970.
Though they won’t be the first movie based on the story of the Beatles by any chance, Sam Mendes’s biopics do mark a first: it is the first time that all the members and their families and estates grant the music rights of the group’s catalogs, as well as full support, for a scripted project.
Sam Mendes’s Beatles biopics will feature four interconnected movies in total, each focusing on a different member of the band and their story.
Mendes is known for his work on American Beauty, 1917, as well as James Bond Films Skyfall and Spectre.
