{"id":261182,"date":"2025-10-30T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261182\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:24:08","slug":"julian-lennon-appreciates-inclusion-in-sam-mendes-beatles-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261182\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Lennon appreciates inclusion in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking with The Guardian<\/a> earlier this year, John Lennon\u2019s oldest son Julian Lennon said that Beatles projects like Peter Jackson\u2019s Get Back or the newly restored Let It Be are \u201cnews to me half the time.\u201d That was also the case with Sam Mendes\u2019 four simultaneous biopics<\/a>. \u201cNormally I\u2019m kept out of all the Apple and Beatles stuff,\u201d Julian explained in a recent interview with <\/a>Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cSean [Lennon, his half-brother] and I have a great relationship, but he can\u2019t even talk to me about that stuff legally, which is a little uncomfortable, because he wants to tell me stuff, but he can\u2019t. But Sean got in touch and said, \u2018Listen, Sam Mendes wants to get in touch.\u2019 I went, \u2018Really? Why?\u2019 I hadn\u2019t even heard of the four new Beatles films. And initially, I just thought to myself, \u2018You\u2019ve got to be kidding me. Another freaking Beatles film? Haven\u2019t we had enough?’\u201d He laughed.<\/p>\n

Julian\u2019s interactions with the filmmaker seem to mark a difference from how he\u2019s usually treated by the Beatles\u2019 management. \u201cSam and I met earlier this year and had lunch. He was an absolute gentleman,\u201d the musician<\/a> and photographer gushed. Mendes asked him for stories he might remember of the Beatles phenomenon, but Julian admitted he was too young to remember much. \u201cThen he said, \u2018The most important thing for me, Jules, is that I want to make sure that your story and your mother\u2019s story are told with absolute clarity and truth, whatever that means.\u2019 And I just said, \u2018I truly appreciate that.’\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The son of a music legend and his first wife, Cynthia Lennon (whom John left for his second wife, Yoko Ono<\/a>), Julian admitted he\u2019s never been part of the Beatles\u2019 \u201cinner circle\u201d to The Guardian. \u201cI\u2019ve been so distanced from my own family and my own father\u2019s life and work. I\u2019m on the outside of things. I always have been, since the age of five,\u201d he told Rolling Stone. \u201cMom and I made our own way most of my life. Dad did help with food and clothing and school. But many people misunderstand that and believe that I\u2019m still and always have been in the mix and that I\u2019ve been swimming in mountains of money. That\u2019s never been the case for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily, he formed a close relationship with his brother Sean. The pair have discussed visiting the set of Mendes\u2019 film(s) together, and Sean asked Julian to read the Lennon-centric script together \u201cto see if anything rubs us not the wrong way, because, again, from Sam\u2019s perspective, he wants this to be the truth as best it can be told,\u201d Julian shared. \u201cI\u2019ll be certainly intrigued to have that chance to read it when I get the opportunity. I just hope it shines a light on everything<\/a> and everyone. It would be nice if it\u2019s a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Jackson’s got a new episode of The Beatles Anthology docuseries in the tank<\/a>Ridley Scott says Paul Mescal is “doing the Beatles next”\u2014and he’s right! [Updated]<\/a><\/p>\n

Julian said he thought the four-different-biopics-at-once idea \u201cwas bonkers from the get-go, but then I fell in love with it, and now I\u2019m more intrigued than anything else to see how he\u2019s going to deliver on this.\u201d He added, \u201cIt inspires me to believe that Mum, more than anybody, will be seen in a good light. She has always been seen as very gracious and very honorable, so I just hope that comes across.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking with The Guardian earlier this year, John Lennon\u2019s oldest son Julian Lennon said that Beatles projects like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-261182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261182","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=261182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}