First Look At The Fab Four: Sam Mendes’ Four-Film Vision for The Beatles

Sony Pictures and director Sam Mendes have officially unveiled the first look at their ambitious upcoming project, The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, offering fans an early glimpse at what could become one of the most daring music biopics ever made.

Rather than condensing the band’s history into a single film, Mendes is taking a bold, unconventional approach: four interconnecting movies, each told from the perspective of a different member of the Fab Four. The films are scheduled for a theatrical release in April 2028 and are designed to work both as individual character studies and as a unified portrait of the most influential band in modern music history.

The newly released images show the cast fully in character, with Paul Mescal stepping into the role of Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson portraying John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. With their era-appropriate costumes and hairstyles, the actors appear deeply immersed in their roles, prompting widespread discussion about the accuracy of their transformations and the performances to come.

What makes the project particularly significant is the unprecedented level of access granted by the Beatles’ estates. For the first time, a narrative film series has been given full life rights and permission to use the band’s iconic catalogue, ensuring an authenticity rarely seen in music biopics.

Beyond the core quartet, the films will also explore the wider world surrounding the band, including key figures such as the Fab Four’s wives – Linda McCartney (Saoirse Ronan), Yoko Ono (Anna Sawai), Maureen Starkey ( Mia McKenna-Bruce), Pattie Boyd (Aimee Lou Wood) – and manager Brian Epstein (James Norton). This broader scope suggests a story not just about fame, but relationships, creativity and the pressures that shaped the Beatles’ meteoric rise and eventual fracture.

With production now under way, Mendes’ four-film experiment is positioning itself as a major cultural event, one that could redefine how musical legends are brought to the big screen.

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Megan Hilborne

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Megan is a freelance writer and film critic based in Portsmouth. She graduated with a degree in Film in 2020 and has continued her study of the medium in her day-to-day life. She takes particular interest in indie, horror, feminist and queer cinema. Some of her writing credits include an interview with Academy Award winner Sean Baker and Time’s 2025 Most Influential People inductee Mo Abudu.

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