The actors who will portray the four members of The Beatles in the previously announced four official biopics about the British rock icons have been revealed. The announcement was made at Sony Pictures’ CinemaCon 2025 event in Las Vegas on Monday, March 31. The news also was shared on TheBeatles.com.
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Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan will portray Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson will take on the role of John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison. The project is titled The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, according to the post on TheBeatles.com. All of the movies will get their theatrical premiere in April 2028.
Mendes and the four actors were on hand for the announcement at CinemaCon 2025.
According to Deadline, Mendes told the CinemaCon audience the four movies’ simultaneous premiere was the first “bingeable moment in cinema,” using the words of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tim Rothman.
The Oscar-winning director wouldn’t confirm the order the films will be released. Regarding The Beatles, he said that the group “redefined the culture and stayed with you for a lifetime,” adding that the Fab Four was perhaps “the most significant band of all time.”
After the actors were introduced, they each quoted part of a lyric from “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”: “It’s wonderful to be here, it’s certainly a thrill, you’re such a lovely audience, we’d like to take you home with us.”
More Details About The Beatles’ Biopics
Mendes admitted at the CinemaCon event that he’d been “trying to do a [Beatles] film for years,” but gave up because “story was too big for one film.” He also noted that a TV series didn’t seem like the best way to approach the band’s story. Mendes said he eventually came up with “a way to tell the epic story for a new generation.”
The Beatles biopics project was first announced in February 2024. As explained in the original announcement, each movie will focus on a different band member’s point-of-view. It was initially reported that the movies would premiere in 2027.
The films are being made with the cooperation of The Beatles and the band’s Apple Corps Ltd. Company. The project will mark the first time that full rights have been granted to use the Fab Four’s music and life stories in a scripted movie. Representing the band are Starr, McCartney, and the families of the late Lennon and Harrison.
Mendes won an Academy Award in 2000 for directing American Beauty. He also was nominated for best director in 2020 for the film 1917. Other movies Mendes has directed include Road to Perdition, Empire of Light, and the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre.
More About the Actors
The Irish-born Mescal, 29, received a Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the 2022 film Aftersun. He also notched an Emmy nod in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category for Normal People in 2020. His other credits include All of Us Strangers and Gladiator II.
Keoghan, 32, is also Irish. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for the 2023 film The Banshees of Inisherin. His other credits include Dunkirk, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Saltburn.
London-born Dickinson is 28. His noteworthy TV and film credits include Beach Rats, Trust, Triangle of Sadness, Where the Crawdads Sing, Babygirl, and A Murder at the End of the World.
Quinn also was born in London and is 31. He played Eddie Munson in season four of Stranger Things. He also appeared in the films Gladiator II and A Quiet Place: Day One, and the TV series Game of Thrones, Catherine the Great, and Small Axe.
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