{"id":270034,"date":"2026-02-06T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:29:11","slug":"see-paul-mescal-in-the-set-photos-from-the-beatles-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270034\/","title":{"rendered":"See Paul Mescal in the Set Photos from the Beatles Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beatlemania \u2026 in 2026?! Thanks to director Sam Mendes\u2019s upcoming four-part Beatles film series<\/a>, the Liverpool band is about to become the biggest music act in the world once again. The hubbub is certainly thanks, in large part, to its all-star cast. The Beatles films will star Paul Mescal (Hamnet<\/a>) as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson (Babygirl) as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn (Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>) as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan<\/a> (Saltburn) as Ringo Starr. With a lineup that good, the hysteria starts to make sense. <\/p>\n

Fans got their first taste of the foursome through a London higher-education postcard event\u2014which revealed the first official images of the actors as their famous counterparts. Released by the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), which McCartney cofounded, the photos of Mescal, Dickinson, Keoghan, and Quinn were met with immediate excitement. I mean, it doesn\u2019t get more spot-on than Mescal\u2019s McCartney.<\/p>\n

Now set photos from one of the films are leaking on social media, showing the four Beatles swarmed in New York City in the mid-\u201960s. Keoghan poses as Starr snapping photos, while Quinn\u2019s Harrison attempts to trudge through the crowd to their cars. Mescal is also wearing the classic single-sleeved blazer that the Beatles arrived in when they first landed in America. Check out the photos out below.<\/p>\n

The four films will hit theaters in 2028, which each film focusing on the perspective of one of the Beatles. Fans have very little to go on so far as to what that exactly means for the Beatles films. Questions remain, including: Do the movies all take place at the same time? Will all four films release in theaters on the same day? Will you need to see all four films to get the full story? <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll find out eventually. For now, all we know is the cast. Alongside the Beatles, Saoirse Ronan (Bad Apples) is Linda McCartney, James Norton (House of Guinness<\/a>) is Brian Epstein, Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus<\/a>) is Pattie Boyd, Harry Lloyd (Brave New World) is George Martin, and Anna Sawai <\/a>(Sh\u014dgun<\/a>) is Yoko Ono.<\/p>\n

Of course, the real test of any music biopic is the music. Fans have yet to hear any of the actors speak or sing as their Beatles counterparts, even though I\u2019m sure the campaign for each of them will reach Elvis levels of performance dissection. <\/p>\n

According to Sawai, the group already sounds like the real deal. \u201cIt\u2019s really amazing, just being on set with the boys and seeing them jam together,\u201d she told Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cIt really feels like I\u2019m watching the Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beatlemania \u2026 in 2026?! Thanks to director Sam Mendes\u2019s upcoming four-part Beatles film series, the Liverpool band is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2115,153090,2117,156,2462,157,111,139,69,153089,153091],"class_list":["post-270034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-c60e34f1-c3e9-4c81-b7ca-d909648522f8","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-us","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shorttitle-the-first-beatles-movie-photos-are-looking-good","tag-subsection-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270034","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=270034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}