{"id":224621,"date":"2025-10-14T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224621\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:33:06","slug":"the-beatles-movie-from-sam-mendes-taps-james-norton-as-brian-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224621\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Beatles&#8217; Movie From Sam Mendes Taps James Norton As Brian Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-norton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-norton\" data-tag=\"james-norton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Norton<\/a> has been tapped to play <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beatles\" data-tag=\"the-beatles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles<\/a> longtime manager <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brian-epstein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-epstein\" data-tag=\"brian-epstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Epstein<\/a> in Sam Mendes\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-beatles-a-four-film-cinematic-event\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/a>, sources tell Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReps for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sony\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony<\/a>\u00a0declined to comment. Ronan joins\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/the-beatles-release-dates-cast-1236355491\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a cast<\/a>\u00a0that includes Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon. With each of the Mendes-directed\u00a0Beatles\u00a0films telling the story of a different member of the band, unknown how significant a role he\u2019d have in each film but given Epstein\u2019s influence on group, he is expected to be featured in each film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEpstein first met the Beatles in 1961 at a lunchtime concert at Liverpool\u2019s Cavern Club and even though he had no experience managing musicians, Epstein put them under contract. He also attempted to get the Beatles a recording contract, eventually securing a deal with EMI\u2019s Parlophone label.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/02\/beatles-movies-sam-mendes-paul-mccartney-john-lennon-george-harrison-ringo-starr-1235831317\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first to report on the Beatles films<\/a>\u00a0from Mendes, all of which will be released in theaters in April 2028, in a bold experiment in eventizing. Mendes will direct from scripts written by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne, as we told you first, though it\u2019s unclear which projects each is tackling. A collaboration between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Mendes\u2019 Neal Street Productions, the films will be produced by Mendes, Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor of Neal Street, as well as Alexandra Derbyshire, in association with Apple Corps for Sony Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis marks the first time that The Beatles and Apple Corps Ltd. have authorized the use of the band members\u2019 life stories and music in scripted films. In addition to distributing, Sony Pictures is the financier of the projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorton is no stranger to biopics about legendary musicians recently appearing in Paramount\u2019s Bob Marley pic Bob Marley: One Love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNorton can be seen in the highly anticipated Netflix limited series House Of Guinness which recently premiered on the streamer last month. He also recently wrapped production on the third season of HBO\u2019s House of the Dragon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe is repped by WME and The Artists Partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: James Norton has been tapped to play The Beatles longtime manager Brian Epstein in Sam Mendes\u2019\u00a0The Beatles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[126151,88,106956,13979],"class_list":["post-224621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brian-epstein","tag-entertainment","tag-james-norton","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}