The first high-res images of Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan in character as the Beatles have arrived.
The photos of the Hollywood stars were first printed out by Sony on four different postcards and dispersed throughout the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts for students to find on Thursday.
On Friday, the images in all their glory were released to the press (see below), showing Mescal as Paul McCartney, Dickinson as John Lennon, Quinn as George Harrison and Keoghan as Ringo Starr on set. Also starring in the films is Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, James Norton as Brian Epstein, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd, Harry Lloyd as George Martin and Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey.
Sam Mendes‘ The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event is currently set to premiere in theaters April 2028, with each movie following a different member of the biggest-selling music act of all time. Production is underway on the films, which makes sense given the mop top haircut Keoghan was sporting at the Crime 101 premiere in London earlier this week.
The Liverpudlian band first skyrocketed to fame in 1963 and would break hundreds of industry records before their official breakup in 1970. McCartney and Starr remain the only surviving members after Lennon’s 1980 assassination and Harrison’s 2001 death from lung cancer.
The movies officially announced the four leads at last year’s CinemaCon, where Mendes took the stage with the stars. “We’re not just making one film about the Beatles — we’re making four,” he had told the crowd: “Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply.”
Mendes produces alongside Neal Street Productions’ Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor. Writing the screenplays are Ford v Ferrari‘s Jez Butterworth, Conclave‘s Peter Straughan and Adolescence‘s Jack Thorne — a trio which should, given their recent award wins, fill the average Beatles fan with hope.
Tom Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter about getting signoff from the band’s label Apple Corps: “You have to match the boldness of the idea with a bold release strategy. There hasn’t been an enterprise like this before, and you can’t think about it in traditional releasing terms.”
