Harris Dickinson\u2019s John Lennon. Photograph: @lipaliverpool\/Instagram<\/p>\n
Pictures of the stars of Sam Mendes\u2019 forthcoming four-part Beatles film in character as the musicians have been published, offering a first look at the actors in costume.<\/p>\n
The pictures were released in postcard form at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts<\/a>, the school co-founded by Paul McCartney which occupies the premises formerly occupied by the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, where both McCartney and future bandmate George Harrison were pupils.<\/p>\n Joseph Quinn\u2019s Harrison Photograph: @lipaliverpool\/Instagram<\/p>\n Paul Mescal, as McCartney, is in a suit and haircut from the band\u2019s early years, and appears to be in a representation of the Cavern Club. Harris Dickinson\u2019s John Lennon is in the round \u201cgranny specs\u201d that Lennon adopted permanently after wearing them to shoot Richard Lester\u2019s 1967 film How I Won the War. Barry Keoghan<\/a>, as Ringo Starr, sports a pirate-style beard and polka dot shirt and Joseph Quinn\u2019s Harrison has the long hair and beard that the musician adopted towards the end of the band\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n Barry Keoghan\u2019s Ringo Starr. Photograph: @lipaliverpool\/Instagram<\/p>\n The school said it had hidden<\/a> the numbered, limited edition postcards around its buildings, and asked its students to find them.<\/p>\n Mendes announced the project<\/a>, currently titled The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event, in 2024, and all four films are due for release in April 2028<\/a>.<\/p>\n