Beatlemaniacs, rejoice! Four separate biopics on each of the Beatles have been confirmed, and four of the internet's boyfriends will appropriately star as each member of quartet.
The four Sam Mendes-directed films, which will be called The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, will tell the stories of the four of the members of the band, with Harris Dickinson set to play John Lennon, Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan playing Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn playing George Harrison.
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Making a surprise appearance with the cast of the four films at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the 1917 director told audiences: 'We’re not just making one film about the Beatles – we’re making four. Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply.'
Mendes also said that he had been trying to make a film about the Beatles 'for years, but I finally gave up', the 'story was too big for one film' and he didn’t want to make a television series. He also added that the film has the blessing of the two remaining living members of the Beatles, McCartney and Starr, and of the families of Lennon and Harrison.
It also marks the first time that the quartet, and the Beatles' rights holders Apple, have granted a full life story and music rights for a scripted film.
This isn't the first in the Beatles biopic cannon, the most notable of which are Sam Taylor-Johnson's 2009 film Nowhere Boy, which told the origin story of John Lennon's childhood, and 1994's Backbeat, which focussed on once-member of the Beatles, Stuart Sutcliffe.
The Beatles formed in 1960 and changed the course of musical history before breaking up in 1970.
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