The Beatles biopic cast revealed, including Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan
All four films about the members of The Beatles are set to be released concurrently in a "binge-able theatrical experience".
Music and film tragics have had one burning question over the past 14 months: who will play The Beatles?
It's already considered one of the more ambitious film projects of recent times, and now director Sam Mendes has revealed who will play the legendary British band in a forthcoming series of four separate biopics.
At a speech at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Monday night, local time, Mendes was joined on stage by the four actors who will play The Beatles.
The Beatles' George Harrison, , John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in 1964.
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Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson will be John Lennon, Joseph Quinn is George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan takes on the role of Ringo Starr.
On stage, the four men reportedly recited a line each from The Beatles' 1967 song 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' before giving a Beatles-esque bow to the crowd of movie theatre industry representatives assembled.
Announced last year, each of the four films will focus on a specific member of the group. At the time, Mendes hinted that he was "excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies".
In his speech this week, Mendes confirmed all films would come out concurrently, with a theatrical release date set for April 2028, calling it "the first binge-able theatrical experience". Principal photography on the films alone is expected to take an entire year.
From 1979's Birth of The Beatles to 1994's Backbeat, there have been plenty of attempts to tell the story of The Beatles on film over the years. Mendes's series, however, will be the first to have rights to the band's extensive catalogue of music.
