New Beatles films: First images show the four stars in their roles
The actors are quite impressive
With "The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event", director Sam Mendes is working on a particularly ambitious cinematic event. He is telling the story of the legendary band in four simultaneously released films, each focusing on one of the four Beatles members. Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan and Joseph Quinn have already been announced as the main actors - and now you can see them in their roles in the first images.
Paul Mescal embodies Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson becomes John Lennon, Barry Keoghan plays Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn slips into the role of George Harrison. As Deadline reports, the images are postcards that are part of a marketing campaign for the film. Sony Pictures UK made them available to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, which was co-founded by Paul McCartney. The postcards were hidden around the campus so that students could search for them.
Talented stars, high expectations
Visually, the pictures are certainly impressive. And the acting expectations are also high. Paul Mescal is currently considered one of the most promising actors. After his leading role in "Gladiator II", he is now wowing critics and audiences in the role of William Shakespeare in "Hamnet". Barry Keoghan is also one of the greatest talents that cinema currently has to offer, as he impressively demonstrated in "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" and "The Banshees of Inisherin".
Joseph Quinn, on the other hand, was able to win the hearts of numerous viewers with his role as "Stranger Things" fan favorite Eddie Munson. Harris Dickinson may be less familiar to some viewers, but has already made a name for himself worldwide with his role alongside Nicole Kidman in the erotic drama "Babygirl".
Cinema release in two years
The other actors in Sam Mendes' "Beatles" films include Mia McKenna-Bruce, Aimee Lou Wood and Harry Lloyd. We will also see Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono and Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney. Sam Mendes is a renowned filmmaker on board who is characterized by his versatility. In addition to several dramas, he also made the war film "1917" and the two James Bond films "Skyfall " and "Spectre". His four-part musician biopic "The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event" is due to be released in cinemas at the beginning of April 2028.
The Beatles: a legendary band
The Beatles from Liverpool are undoubtedly one of the biggest and most influential rock and pop acts of all time. With countless classics such as "Let It Be", "Yesterday" and "Strawberry Fields Forever", the band, which was founded in the early 1960s, secured an unbreakable place in music history. However, the quartet consisting of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison split up after just ten years. Nevertheless, the ambitious songwriting of their increasingly complex songs, their musical versatility and their enormous media presence made the Beatles legendary within a decade.
Sadly, of the four former members of the Beatles, only the now 83-year-old Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who is two years older, are still alive. John Lennon was shot dead in New York on December 8, 1980. He was only 40 years old. George Harrison died of lung cancer on November 29, 2001 at the age of 58. The songs of the four-piece band, affectionately referred to by many as the "Fab Four", remain unforgotten, as do the members who have already died.
