\n\tThe Beatles have found their legendary producer. <\/p>\n
\n\tHarry Lloyd, the British actor best known for playing Viserys Targaryen in the first season \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d is set to portray George Martin<\/a> in the upcoming four-part\u00a0Beatles biopic by director Sam Mendes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tLloyd joins Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harrison Dickinson as John Lennon and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison in Sony Pictures<\/a>\u2018 \u201cThe Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/a>,\u201d due for release in 2028. <\/p>\n \n\tThe casting is being revealed by Martin\u2019s son, Giles Martin, in a pre-recorded interview going out on the Ryan Tubridy Show on Virgin Radio U.K later on Friday. \u201cHe\u2019s really good. He\u2019s very committed,\u201d he said. Variety has since confirmed the casting with the production.<\/p>\n \n\tMartin \u2014 was passed away in 2016 \u2014\u00a0was commonly referred to as the \u201cfifth Beatle\u201d for his extensive involvement in each of the band\u2019s original albums. He wrote most of the orchestral and string arrangements and also played piano or keyboards on a number of their tracks. Once described as \u201cthe world\u2019s most famous record producer,\u201d across a 60-year career Martin produced 30 number one hit singles in U.K. and 23 in the U.S., winning six Grammys. <\/p>\n \n\tAlongside \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d Lloyd has appeared in major shows such as \u201cWolf Hall\u201d and \u201cLegion,\u201d playing Charles Xavier. He is due to star in the upcoming sixth season of \u201cSlow Horses.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe much-discussed Beatles films are now in production and being directed back-to-back by Mendes, with a trio of award-winning writers \u2014 Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne \u2014 having penned the scripts. Production is expected to carry on into late 2026, with Sony releasing all four movies simultaneously in April 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Beatles have found their legendary producer. Harry Lloyd, the British actor best known for playing Viserys Targaryen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,107211,19,17,337,31724,26484,69279],"class_list":{"0":"post-192489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-martin","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-sam-mendes","15":"tag-sony-pictures","16":"tag-the-beatles-u2014-a-four-film-cinematic-event"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115587598759165594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}