{"id":258982,"date":"2026-01-30T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:48:06","slug":"beatles-movies-reveals-first-look-of-paul-mescal-as-paul-mccartney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258982\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles Movies Reveals First Look of Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a promo stunt, images of Harris Dickinson as John Lennon and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison were also revealed<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe first preview of the hotly anticipated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beatles-biopic-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-1234971245\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Beatles films<\/a>\u00a0helmed by director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sam-mendes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Mendes<\/a>\u00a0has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Thursday, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts \u2014 the school founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-mccartney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-mccartney\" data-tag=\"paul-mccartney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney<\/a> and Mark Featherstone-Witty \u2014\u00a0teamed up with Sony Pictures UK for a fab four marketing stunt. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUGOvMiCi3X\/?hl=en\">Postcards<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/harris-dickinson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harris-dickinson\" data-tag=\"harris-dickinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris Dickinson<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-lennon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-lennon\" data-tag=\"john-lennon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Lennon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-mescal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-mescal\" data-tag=\"paul-mescal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Mescal<\/a>\u00a0as McCartney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/joseph-quinn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joseph-quinn\" data-tag=\"joseph-quinn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Quinn<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/george-harrison\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-harrison\" data-tag=\"george-harrison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Harrison<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/barry-keoghan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_barry-keoghan\" data-tag=\"barry-keoghan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Keoghan<\/a>\u00a0as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ringo-starr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ringo-starr\" data-tag=\"ringo-starr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ringo Starr<\/a> were hidden across the institute and lucky students who plucked them were encouraged to tag the art institute\u2019s socials to spread the word about the upcoming project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNews of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beatles\" data-tag=\"beatles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles<\/a> \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event arrived last April, with the four-part biopic set to release on April 7, 2028. Each Beatle will be the subject of their own solo films, which will tell the story of the legendary band from each member\u2019s perspective. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 First look at Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan and Joseph Quinn in the upcoming Beatles Biopic films!<\/p>\n<p>Sony Pictures UK provided the postcards to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, where they are hidden around campus for students to find <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sjRSYeAXNT\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sjRSYeAXNT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Mescal Updates (@mescalupdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mescalupdates\/status\/2016902300946558983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt CinemaCon in Las Vegas last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-beatles-biopics-sam-mendes-casting-2028-release-date-1235307728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mendes touted<\/a> that each chapter in the series will be the \u201cfirst binge-able theatrical experience,\u201d adding, \u201cPerhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe films are also set to star James Norton as Brian Epstein, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey, and Harry Lloyd as George Martin. Also joining the cast will be David Morrissey as Jim McCartney, Leanne Best as Mimi Smith, Bobby Schofield as Neil Aspinall, Daniel Hoffmann-Gill as Mal Evans, Arthur Darvill as Derek Taylor, and Adam Pally as Allen Klein.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a promo stunt, images of Harris Dickinson as John Lennon and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[54883,156,57605,55037,29645,57606,157,111,139,69,466,467,43482,469],"class_list":{"0":"post-258982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-barry-keoghan","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-harrison","11":"tag-harris-dickinson","12":"tag-john-lennon","13":"tag-joseph-quinn","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-paul-mccartney","19":"tag-paul-mescal","20":"tag-ringo-starr","21":"tag-the-beatles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}