More roles in The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event have been cast, with David Morrissey, Leanne Best and Bobby Schofield among those to be playing members of the legendary band\u2019s circle.<\/p>\n
The Sam Mendes-directed films<\/a>, produced by Sony Pictures<\/a>, Neal Street Productions and Apple Corps, are all set for release on April 7, 2028, despite earlier reports that they\u2019d be released at different times. Each film will be told from the perspective of one band member, and it\u2019s also the first-ever film to be granted music rights to the Beatles\u2019 discography.<\/p>\n In June 2024, Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal<\/a> and Barry Keoghan<\/a> were confirmed to be playing The Beatles themselves, with it being revealed over the following months that Dickinson would be John Lennon<\/a>, Mescal would be Paul McCartney<\/a>, and Keoghan would be Ringo Starr<\/a>. Charlie Rowe was originally announced to be one of the quartet, but it was later revealed that Joseph Quinn would be completing the four<\/a>, playing George Harrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, Morrissey (The Walking Dead<\/a>) has been announced to play McCartney\u2019s father Jim, while Line Of Duty<\/a> actress Best \u2013 who Rolling Stone<\/a> reported is the niece of former Beatles drummer Pete \u2013 will play Lennon\u2019s Aunt Mimi. The Covenant actor Schofield is set to be road manager, and schoolfriend of McCartney and Harrison, Neil Aspinall.<\/p>\n Also joining are Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (Sherwood) as roadie Mal Evans, Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who<\/a>) as press officer Derek Taylor and Adam Pally (The Mindy Project) as music manager Allen Klein. Harry Lloyd (Game Of Thrones<\/a>) will be playing the band\u2019s producer George Martin, while Happy Valley\u2019s James Norton has been confirmed as manager Brian Epstein, as was reported in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n They join Dickinson, Mescal, Keoghan and Quinn, as well as the likes of Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce<\/a>, who are playing Linda McCartney, Yoko Ono<\/a>, Pattie Boyd and Maureen Starkey respectively.<\/p>\n Casting of other characters, including Cynthia Lennon and influential sitar player (and close friend of Harrison) Ravi Shankar, is set to be announced in due course.<\/p>\n Per Variety<\/a> earlier this year, Mendes\u2019 decision to work on four films comes after years of toying with the idea of a mini-series but ultimately deciding against it, and that \u201cthe story was too huge to fit into a single movie.\u201d<\/p>\n Starr, meanwhile, told Mendes to write parts of the script. According to\u00a0the New York Times,<\/a> the drummer worked with Mendes for two days to go over the scripts for his film, and\u00a0\u201coffered extensive notes\u201d to ensure it was an accurate reflection of his life.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the BBC has just acquired a new Beatles biopic<\/a>, Hamburg Days, which charts their early days as a band. A synopsis of the series reads: \u201cIn the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg\u2019s St. Pauli\u2019s red-light district, an inexperienced young rock \u2018n\u2019 roll band from Liverpool collide with two young artists, Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr. Together they help spark a transformation that turns a scrappy group of teenagers into the greatest music phenomenon the world has ever known: The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n And documentary series The Beatles Anthology was recently rereleased with an extra ninth episode<\/a> after it was first aired in 1995.<\/p>\n