Meet the (onscreen) Beatles: Who are the actors starting in separate Fab Four biopics?

While the escaped lips of Hollywood person seen the apt formed members for an unprecedented bid of Beatles biopics antecedently leaked successful the media, moviegoers and fans of the set got their archetypal look astatine the 4 actors playing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr connected Monday.

Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal and Joseph Quinn were officially introduced astatine Cinemacon successful Las Vegas, with Oscar-winning manager Sam Mendes besides connected manus to hype the project, which is being heralded arsenic the archetypal clip that Apple Corps Ltd, the institution founded by members of the Beatles, has signed disconnected connected specified a project.

The 4 films, each told from the position of a set member, volition beryllium released "in proximity" to each different successful April 2028, Mendes said, adding that Sony Pictures enforcement Tom Rothman described it arsenic "the archetypal bingeable theatrical experience."

There are fewer precedents to the ambitious plan; connected a overmuch smaller scale, Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy of films were released implicit the people of a twelvemonth successful 1993-94.

Keoghan, astatine 32, is the oldest of the bunch, and besides older than immoderate Beatle was erstwhile they broke up successful 1970. The quality of the actors to represent the musicians implicit their dozen-year beingness has been the taxable of online chatter truthful far, arsenic good arsenic a statement whether immoderate of them lucifer the set members.

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In Liverpool, wherever the lads wherever influenced by Britain's skiffle euphony craze to prime up instruments and signifier bands, it has not escaped announcement that 2 of the actors are Irish, and 2 are Londoners.

"They couldn't person recovered four Scousers?" 1 commenter exclaimed, utilizing the nickname for the northwest larboard city's residents.

Mendes's filmography — American Beauty, Spectre, Revolution Road — has focused connected fictional characters and not biopics, but helium has staged respective theatre musicals successful his career.

Many questions remain, from the bid successful which the films volition beryllium released, to however the engaged actors volition beryllium capable gel unneurotic and seizure the band's madcap vigor successful their aboriginal years.

Nevertheless, the task promises the astir sweeping look connected movie astatine the group. Previous biopics connected the large surface and tv person tended to absorption connected circumstantial periods oregon storylines, with Harrison and Starr mostly overshadowed.

The Birth of the Beatles (1979) and Backbeat (1994) dealt with the group's earliest years, with the second movie predating Starr's clip successful the band. Backbeat — aboriginal adapted for the signifier — was centred successful Germany, with a look astatine the narration betwixt Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe, the onetime Beatles subordinate who died abruptly successful 1962, conscionable months aft leaving the group.

Here are the formed members announced Monday:

Harris Dickinson arsenic John Lennon

Dickinson, 28, has already portrayed an eclectic database of existent radical successful a vocation conscionable a decennary aged — Prince Phillip, actor-director Richard Attenborough, lipid tycoon scion John Paul Getty III and the doomed wrestler David Von Erich successful the Iron Claw.

Dickinson was astir precocious seen by galore successful a pb relation other Nicole Kidman successful the erotic thriller Babygirl.

Lennon's premature decease astatine 40 has seen him the absorption of much portrayals than the remainder of the set members. Even his assassination has been covered successful a biopic, with aboriginal Oscar victor Jared Leto playing Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, in 2007's Chapter 27.

Ian Hart earned praise for his Lennon portrayal successful Backbeat, portion Doctor Who histrion Christopher Eccleston starred successful the nationalist tv offering Lennon Naked successful 2010, focusing connected Lennon's tumultuous 1967-1971 play erstwhile helium struggled with cause use, archetypal met Yoko Ono and began to make euphony extracurricular the group. The couple's beingness besides got the made-for-TV attraction successful 1985's John and Yoko: A Love Story.

Nowhere Boy (2009) looked astatine Lennon's seminal adolescence — his parents divided acrimoniously and his parent died erstwhile helium was 14 — portion Two of Us (2000) saw actors Jared Harris and Aidan Quinn play Lennon and McCartney, respectively, arsenic they navigated their narration successful the mid-1970s aft the contentious divided of the Beatles.

Paul Mescal arsenic Paul McCartney

Mescal starred successful Gladiator II and All of Us Strangers and was nominated for an Oscar for Aftersun.

The Irish actor's information is not a surprise, inadvertently revealed precocious past twelvemonth by Gladiator II manager Ridley Scott.

Mescal, 29, told CBC's Q successful 2022 that helium didn't person a roadmap successful presumption of choosing roles.

"It's ever going to beryllium related to the filmmaker oregon the manager and the root worldly — if it's a quality I consciousness similar I tin correspond accurately and truthfully, I'm going to bash that," helium said.

While the unit volition beryllium aggravated to unrecorded up to the expectations of fans successful immoderate of the 4 roles, comments attributed to McCartney person seen the euphony fable explicit immoderate displeasure with erstwhile portrayals.

Joseph Quinn arsenic George Harrison

Quinn, 31, besides conscionable appeared in Gladiator II. The London autochthonal archetypal attracted attraction to galore extracurricular of Britain with an quality successful the fourth play of Stranger Things, and volition spot his illustration raised successful the adjacent twelvemonth oregon truthful with aggregate appearances arsenic Johnny Storm, the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, successful Marvel films.

"It's important to travel the stories that involvement you, the filmmakers that person thing absorbing to say," Quinn told The Associated Press recently. "If designation comes on ... it's successful work of making the film."

Harrison, who died successful 2000, volition get his infinitesimal successful the prima onscreen aft being intimately associated with the movie industry after the Beatles broke up. Harrison's HandMade Films produced and distributed films which included Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits and Withnail and I.

While Harrison hasn't been depicted onscreen arsenic overmuch arsenic Lennon and McCartney, future Doctor Who and Thick Of It actor Peter Capaldi — sporting a rad mustache — played Harrison successful 1985's John and Yoko: A Love Story.

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Barry Keoghan arsenic Ringo Starr

Keoghan, different Irish actor, has taken a crook connected the grant amusement circuit for a fewer years now.

The Banshees of Inisherin, from 2022, earned him Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, and it won him a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA). Keoghan's show successful the pursuing year's Saltburn besides resulted successful Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

Starr, who enthusiastically greeted the Beatles movie announcement successful February 2024, aboriginal successful the twelvemonth tipped disconnected to Entertainment Tonight that Keoghan was acceptable to beryllium connected the drummer's stool for the Mendes movie.

"I judge he's determination taking drum lessons, and I anticipation not excessively many," Starr joked.

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