{"id":740210,"date":"2026-08-16T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740210\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:22:08","slug":"sam-mendes-beatles-biopic-recreates-abbey-road-album-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740210\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Mendes\u2019 Beatles Biopic Recreates &#8216;Abbey Road&#8217; Album Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFans got a sneak peek at Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan and Harris Dickinson filming a legendary moment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beatles_1\" data-tag=\"beatles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles<\/a>\u2018 career for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lists\/beatles-biopic-movie-sony-casting-release-date\/when-will-the-beatles-movies-be-released\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lists\/beatles-biopic-movie-sony-casting-release-date\/when-will-the-beatles-movies-be-released\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Mendes\u2019s upcoming films<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe four actors, who are each portraying one of the band members, were recently spotted recreating the group\u2019s iconic Abbey Road album cover. The original photo, taken on Aug. 8, 1969, features John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison walking in single file across a crosswalk outside EMI Studios in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVia videos shared on social media, Mescal\u00a0as\u00a0McCartney, Dickinson\u00a0as\u00a0Lennon,\u00a0Quinn\u00a0as Harrison and\u00a0Keoghan\u00a0as Starr were seen recreating the cover photo for Mendes\u2019 four-part Beatles biopic, titled The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event. Each movie will be told from one of the band members\u2019 points of view, with all four films having interconnected narratives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile specific plot details are being kept under wraps, the movie did get access to The Beatles\u2019 full music catalog when the band\u2019s label, Apple Corps, granted music rights for the scripted films. Fans will just have to wait and see how many songs from 1969\u2019s Abbey Road will be featured in the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe films, via Sony Pictures, will also star David Morrissey as Paul McCartney\u2019s father Jim McCartney; Leanne Best as John Lennon\u2019s Aunt Mimi; James Norton as manager Brian Epstein; Harry Lloyd as producer George Martin; Bobby Schofield as road manager Neil Aspinall; Daniel Hoffman-Gill as roadie Mal Evans; Arthur Darvill as press officer Derek Taylor; Adam Pally as controversial music manager Allen Klein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAll four Beatles films are set to hit theaters in April 2028, but the exact date has yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans got a sneak peek at Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan and Harris Dickinson filming a legendary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,83062,10447,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-sam-mendes","tag-the-beatles","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}