{"id":1718546,"date":"2026-01-29T22:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718546"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:42:16","slug":"see-paul-mescal-barry-keoghan-and-more-in-first-look-at-sam-mendes-beatles-biopics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718546","title":{"rendered":"See Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, and More in First Look at Sam Mendes\u2019 Beatles Biopics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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See Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, and More in First Look at Sam Mendes\u2019 Beatles Biopics<\/h1>\n
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All four films are currently set for release on April 7, 2028<\/div>\n
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The first look at the fab four in Sam Mendes\u2019 Beatles biopics has arrived\u2014in the mail. Yesterday (January 29), the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, which was co-founded by Paul McCartney, sent out postcards with photos of Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson, and Joseph Quinn as their respective characters. Mescal plays McCartney, Keoghan plays Ringo Starr, Dickinson plays John Lennon, and Quinn plays George Harrison. See the cast below.<\/p>\n

All four of Mendes\u2019 films\u2014the first scripted movies to be granted the Beatles\u2019 life and music rights\u2014are currently set to be released on April 7, 2028, according to Variety<\/em>. The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/em> also stars Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey Tigrett, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd, James Norton as Brian Epstein, and Harry Lloyd as George Martin.<\/p>\n

Revisit Simon Reynolds\u2019 essay \u201cHow Rock and the Royals Jostled for Britain\u2019s Cultural Identity During the Queen\u2019s Lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr in The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/em> (Courtesy of Sony Pictures)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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Source URL: http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/see-paul-mescal-barry-keoghan-and-more-in-first-look-at-sam-mendes-beatles-biopics\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News See Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, and More in First Look at Sam Mendes\u2019 Beatles Biopics All four films are currently set for release on April 7, 2028 By Walden Green January 30, 2026 Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney in The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event (Courtesy of Sony Pictures) The first look at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,54],"class_list":["post-1718546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}