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Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes will release four movies about The Beatles in the same month. Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney, and Barry Keoghan will portray Ringo Starr in "the first binge-able theatrical experience."
The "four-film cinematic event," which will hit theaters in April 2028, will focus on a different member of the legendary British pop quartet. Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn will play 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 the CinemaCon movie theater convention 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.
"I'd been trying to make a film about the Beatles for years, but I had temporarily given up," explained "American Beauty" Oscar-winner Mendes.
"I just felt the story of the band was too huge to fit into a single movie, and that turning it into a TV mini-series just somehow didn't feel right."
The announcement came at the start of the CinemaCon trade convention, where movie theater owners gather annually in Las Vegas to hear Hollywood studios' plans for the coming months and years.
