Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes is gearing up to direct four interconnected films about The Beatles – and they’ll be one star-studded affair. Joseph Quinn, Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, and Harris Dickinson will play the Fab Four in The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event.
Mendes took the stage at Sony’s CinemaCon presentation to share some details about this project and revealed he’s been trying to make it for years. He wanted to bring The Beatles’ story to the big screen because they “redefined the culture and stayed with you for a lifetime” and described them “the most significant band of all time.”
After months of speculations about the film’s casting, Mendes finally confirmed the rumors and invited the four lead actors to join him on stage. The cast will be led by Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon.
The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event will be released in April 2028, while the principal photography on all four films will take about a year. Mendes described the four films as the first “bingeable moment in cinema” and explained he decided to direct a separate film about each member of the Fab Four because “the story was too big for one film.”