The Fab Four are heading to the big screen in a cinematic project unlike any before. Director Sam Mendes has confirmed the full cast for The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, a bold, multi-part biopic project arriving in cinemas April 2028 via Sony Pictures.
Announced during Sony’s CinemaCon presentation at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the quartet of films will each focus on one member of The Beatles, with Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr.
Each film will tell the story of a different band member’s life, eventually intersecting to form a collective narrative of one of the most iconic musical acts in history.
While Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary offered an exhaustive look at the band’s recording process, Mendes’ project marks the first time The Beatles have authorised a scripted feature to use their music and life rights.
The cast brings a mix of dramatic weight and rising cultural cachet. Mescal has delivered acclaimed performances in Aftersun, All of Us Strangers, and The Lost Daughter, while Keoghan, fresh from Saltburn, The Banshees of Inisherin, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, already has form in the music world, appearing in the video for Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Bug’. Quinn, best known for his role as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things, previously jammed with Metallica after his standout moment in the series, while Dickinson starred in Triangle of Sadness and the recent wrestling drama The Iron Claw.
The Beatles themselves were no strangers to the big screen, famously appearing in A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, and Yellow Submarine, as well as Let It Be, which recently returned in a newly restored cut.
The band also picked up Best Rock Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards for ‘Now and Then’, a resurrected John Lennon demo completed using AI-assisted technology. The track marked what is widely expected to be the final new Beatles song.
Sony has not yet confirmed who will score or supervise the music for the biopics, or whether any surviving Beatles will have a hand in the development.
Mendes will direct all four films, produced under his Neal Street banner alongside Pippa Harris, Julie Pastor, and Alexandra Derbyshire, in association with Apple Corps.
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