Sam Mendes to launch four Beatles movies in same month

Sam Mendes will release four movies about The Beatles in the same month, the director announced on Monday, with Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney and Barry Keoghan portraying Ringo Starr in "the first bingeable theatrical experience."

- ANDREW MARSZAL

The four-film cinematic event," hitting cinemas in April 2028, will each focus on a different member of the legendary British pop quartet, with Harris Dickinson playing John Lennon and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

"Each one is told from the particular perspective of just one of the guys. They intersect in different ways -- sometimes overlapping, sometimes not," Mendes told CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

"They're four very different human beings. Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply. But together, all four films will tell the story of the greatest band in history."

Filming is about to begin and is expected to take more than a year, said Mendes. The exact order in which the movies will be released has not yet been revealed.