Sam Mendes’ Beatles Biopic Reveals Fab Four: Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, & Harris Dickinson
The cast and release date for Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic have been revealed.
At CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Monday, Mendes and his cast took to the stage to unveil not only who his John, Paul, Ringo, and George were, but also that all four films will have a theatrical release in April 2028.
Your Fab Four are Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. Each movie centers on one of the band members.
“We’re not just making one film about the Beatles — we’re making four,” Mendes said at CinemaCon. “Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply.”
Mendes told the audience that Sony film chief Tom Rothman said the projects would be “the first binge-able theatrical experience.” The cast then recited lyrics from the Beatles’ iconic “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” then bowed in unison. It was a truly epic way for Sony to close out its presentation.
Taking an Oscar-winning director in Mendes and giving him four rising stars to deliver a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience to depict all four members of the Beatles in four separate movies, releasing in the same month? It’s perhaps precisely the kind of big swing for the theater experience that audiences need right now to remind them that there is no better way to watch a movie.
Mendes also has the support of the Beatles, marking the first time they’ve backed a scripted film based on their lives. Recently, Peter Jackson’s epic The Beatles: Get Back detailed the lead-up to their iconic live performance atop their Seville Row studio.
“We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” said one of the film’s producers, Pippa Harris, in a statement at the time of the initial announcement. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege.”
Featured image: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MARCH 31: (L-R) Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan and Harris Dickinson are introduced onstage to promote four upcoming biopics about The Beatles at the Sony Pictures Entertainment presentation during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on March 31, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
