Sam Mendes’ Four-Film Beatles Biopic Reveals First Look at the Fab Four
We have a new peek at director Sam Mendes’s first-of-its-kind quartet of films about each member of the Beatles. Sony Pictures, the studio behind Mendes’ films, has revealed four printed postcards that show each one of the cast members—Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr—that were hidden throughout the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts for students to find.
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The approach Mendes and Sony are taking to this four-film biopic is certainly bold: all four films will be released in April 2028. Production has, of course, begun, given that release date, and the star power doesn’t end with Mendes and his four Beatles; Saoirse Ronan is set to play Linda McCartney, Shõgun breakout star Anna Sawai is playing Yoko Ono, and The White Lotus breakout star Aimee Lou Wood is playing Pattie Boyd.
“We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” said one of the film’s producers, Pippa Harris, in a statement at the time of the initial announcement. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege.”
Crucially, Mendes also has the support of the Beatles label Apple Corps, marking the first time they’ve backed a scripted film based on their lives. Recently, Peter Jackson’s epic The Beatles: Get Back detailed the lead-up to their iconic live performance atop their Saville Row studio.
When describing Sony’s approach to Mendes’s biopics, Sony film boss Tom Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter, “You have to match the boldness of the idea with a bold release strategy. There hasn’t been an enterprise like this before, and you can’t think about it in traditional releasing terms.”
Featured image: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MARCH 31: (L-R) Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan and Harris Dickinson are introduced onstage to promote four upcoming biopics about The Beatles at the Sony Pictures Entertainment presentation during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on March 31, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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