The first public glimpse of Sam Mendes’ ambitious Beatles film project has arrived, offering fans an early look at the actors set to portray the four members of the legendary band.
On Thursday, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), founded by Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty, partnered with Sony Pictures UK for a low-key promotional reveal. Postcards featuring the principal cast were discreetly placed throughout the institute, with students encouraged to share the images on social media after discovering them.
The postcards showcase Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. While the images offer only a stylized first impression rather than full costume reveals, they mark the first official visual material connected to the project.
The films are collectively titled The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, a multi-part biographical undertaking announced in April 2025. Each of the four films will focus on a different member of The Beatles, telling the story of the band from that individual’s perspective. All four movies are scheduled for release on April 7, 2028.
Speaking about the project at CinemaCon in Las Vegas last year, Mendes described the films as “a chance to understand them a little more deeply,” framing the series not as a traditional cradle-to-breakup biopic, but as a set of intersecting character studies that together form a portrait of the band.
In addition to the four leads, the ensemble cast includes James Norton as Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, and Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney. The supporting cast also features Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey, and Harry Lloyd as producer George Martin.
Additional roles include David Morrissey as Jim McCartney, Leanne Best as Lennon’s aunt Mimi Smith, Bobby Schofield as longtime associate Neil Aspinall, Daniel Hoffmann-Gill as Mal Evans, Arthur Darvill as press officer Derek Taylor, and Adam Pally as controversial manager Allen Klein.
While production remains in its early stages, the coordinated reveal at LIPA signals the beginning of a long promotional runway for what is shaping up to be one of the most expansive and closely watched music biopics ever produced.
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