A quartet of Beatles biopics, one specializing in every member of the band, is at present within the works from director Sam Mendes, with the complete approval and the musical rights of the band.
Based on Deadline, Mendes will direct all 4 of the movies, which is able to “inform interconnected tales, one from every band member’s standpoint.” Sony Footage has acquired the rights to the movies and plans to launch all of them in 2027.
Mendes will produce the movies together with his Neal Road Productions associate Pippa Harris, Neal Road’s Julie Pastor, and Jeff Jones, who serves because the CEO of The Beatles’ firm Apple Corps Ltd.
“Apple Corps is delighted to collaborate with Sam, Pippa and Julie to discover every Beatle’s distinctive story and to carry them collectively in a suitably fascinating and revolutionary means,” Jones stated in a press release. “Sony Footage’ enthusiastic help, championing the venture’s scope and inventive imaginative and prescient from the beginning, has been invaluable for all of us.”
“We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic expertise: 4 movies, informed from 4 totally different views which inform a single story about probably the most celebrated band of all time,” promised Harris in her personal assertion. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do that is an immense privilege.”
Loads of particulars nonetheless have to be ironed out, together with who will play every member of the Fab 4, which is able to undoubtedly be a number of the most sought-after roles in latest reminiscence. And whereas Mendes intends to direct every of the movies himself, he nonetheless wants to seek out writers to pen the movies’ scripts.
Mendes’ four-part biopic is simply the most recent formidable movie venture chronicling The Beatles’ historical past. In 2021, Peter Jackson premiered The Beatles: Get Again, an eight-hour documentary targeted on the periods surrounding the making of Let It Be.
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