Back in the spring of 2025, the long-running rumors were finally confirmed: four different films about the rise of The Beatles are officially on their way. The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event will be directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes, and star four of the most in-demand young British and Irish actors working today as its central quartet: none other than Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Gladiator II’s Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.
The auteur confirmed the news on March 31, 2025, at CinemaCon, showing up towards the end of the Sony Pictures presentation to reveal further details. The logline for all four projects reads: “Each man has his own story, but together they are legendary.”
To that end, these will be four interconnected biopics, one from each band member’s point of view. The exact order in which the films will be released is not yet known, though all four will hit the big screen in April 2028, in what the director describes as the first “bingeable moment in cinema.” (Think of it as Barbenheimer, times two.)
Doing the writing honors will be three veterans—Tony winner Jez Butterworth; recent Oscar recipient for Conclave, Peter Straughan; and Adolescence’s double Emmy winner Jack Thorne—but it’s unclear which film each is taking on.