{"id":146072,"date":"2025-11-21T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146072\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:23:07","slug":"harry-lloyd-cast-as-producer-george-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146072\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Lloyd Cast as Producer George Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOne of the last key roles in Sam Mendes\u2019<\/a> four-part Beatles film<\/a> has been filled, with British actor Harry Lloyd signing on to play producer George Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMartin\u2019s son, Giles Martin, confirmed the news in an interview<\/a> on the Ryan Tubridy Show on Virgin Radio U.K. The younger Martin \u2014 who\u2019s helping out on the Mendes films, too \u2014 praised Lloyd\u2019s work so far, calling him \u201cgreat\u201d and \u201ccommitted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLloyd is probably best known in the U.S. for playing Viserys Targaryen during the first season of Game of Thrones. Since then, he\u2019s starred in celebrated U.K. shows like The Fear and Wolf Hall, while also popping up in shows like Manhattan, Counterpart, Brave New World, and Legion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe role of George Martin<\/a> in Mendes\u2019 films will likely be a supporting, but pivotal one.<\/a> The producer, who died in 2016<\/a>, earned the moniker \u201cthe Fifth Beatle\u201d<\/a> for his extensive work with the band throughout their career. Martin was the first producer who agreed to work with the Beatles<\/a>, signing them to EMI\u2019s Parlophone imprint, after other labels had passed over the group.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs their working relationship began, Martin allowed the young group<\/a> to play their own instruments, record their own songs, and even sing with their working-class Northern accents intact (things not many other producers would\u2019ve necessarily allowed at that time). Martin remained the band\u2019s key collaborator in the studio, producing almost every Beatles album entirely himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the end of the band\u2019s run, however, the relationship with Martin had started to strain (he was\u00a0reportedly sidelined<\/a>\u00a0during the session for \u201cThe White Album,\u201d prompting him to take a vacation in the middle of recording). The only Beatles album on which he\u2019s not credited as lead producer is the group\u2019s last, Let It Be, which was done mostly by Phil Spector (though Martin still contributed).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs Martin, Lloyd joins an already stacked cast for Mendes\u2019 films. Paul Mescal will star as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. More recently, the film\u2019s leading ladies<\/a> were confirmed, with Saoirse Ronan<\/a> cast as Linda McCartney, Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, and Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/a> is currently in production, with the movies set to start arriving in theaters in April 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the last key roles in Sam Mendes\u2019 four-part Beatles film has been filled, with British actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,89065,85,46,409,47058,17405],"class_list":["post-146072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-george-martin","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-sam-mendes","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}