Get ready for lots of moptop in a short time. Sam Mendes makes four Beatles Movies – and all four will be released theatrically in April 2028.
The filmmaker, who announced the news at Cinemacon, also confirmed the very speculated casting. Paul Mescal plays Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan will start when Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson will put their spin on John Lennon. The four stars came out on stage and bent in the style that the band popularized during their heyday.
Mendes promised that the multi-part biopiken, officially entitled “The Beatles-A Four-Film cinematic event”, will be the “first binge-capable theater experience.”
“We need big film events to get people out of the house,” Mendes said to theater owners on Monday at Sony’s presentation.
The director, whose credits include “American Beauty” and “Skyfall”, had dreamed of bringing Fab Four to screens for several years. But he did not want to make a mini -series and he worried that “the story was too huge to fit into a single movie.” So he came up with a plan to tell the story of “the biggest band in history” from the perspective of each of its members, to try to capture their unlikely journey from Liverpool to the Center for Global Culture. This meant four independent functions and one of the biggest investments in film history.
“It’s a chance to understand them deeper,” promised Mendes.
The film is also the first narrative feature that is granted music rights to the Beatles extensive catalog of hits such as “Strawberry Fields”, “Let it be”
Mendes said that main photography on the four films will take a year, a sign of how massive effort he makes. Tom Rothman, Sony Pictures Manager who monitored the production on a certain James Cameron Sci-Fi-Episk back when he was at Fox, joked that Mendes movie gave him “‘Avatar’ Flashbacks.”
We all know how that game turned out.
