{"id":424597,"date":"2025-12-04T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:54:13","slug":"beatles-movies-add-eight-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424597\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles Movies Add Eight To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSam Mendes has added eight to the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-beatles-a-four-film-cinematic-event\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beatles-a-four-film-cinematic-event\" data-tag=\"the-beatles-a-four-film-cinematic-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sony\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sony\" data-tag=\"sony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sony<\/a> announced on Thursday. They are <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/david-morrissey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-morrissey\" data-tag=\"david-morrissey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Morrissey<\/a> (The Walking Dead), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/leanne-best\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leanne-best\" data-tag=\"leanne-best\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leanne Best<\/a> (Walk-In), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-norton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-norton\" data-tag=\"james-norton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Norton<\/a> (Happy Valley), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-lloyd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-lloyd\" data-tag=\"harry-lloyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Lloyd<\/a> (The Theory of Everything), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bobby-schofield\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bobby-schofield\" data-tag=\"bobby-schofield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Schofield<\/a> (The Covenant), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniel-hoffman-gill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daniel-hoffman-gill\" data-tag=\"daniel-hoffman-gill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Hoffman-Gill<\/a> (Sherwood), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/arthur-darvill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_arthur-darvill\" data-tag=\"arthur-darvill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur Darvill<\/a> (Broadchurch), and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/adam-pally\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-pally\" data-tag=\"adam-pally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Pally<\/a> (Happy Endings).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMorrissey will play Paul McCartney\u2019s father Jim McCartney, with Best as John Lennon\u2019s Aunt Mimi, Norton as manager Brian Epstein, Lloyd as long-time music producer George Martin, Schofield as road manager and trusted confidant Neil Aspinall, Hoffman-Gill as roadie Mal Evans, Darvill as press officer and friend Derek Taylor, and Pally as controversial music manager Allen Klein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs previously announced, the films will star Paul Mescal as McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, with each telling the story of a different member of the band. Mia McKenna-Bruce, Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai, and Aimee Lou Wood also star in the respective roles of Maureen (Cox) Starkey, Linda (Eastman) McCartney, Yoko Ono, and Pattie Boyd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe were first to report on the Beatles films from Mendes, all of which will be released with full theatrical windows in April 2028. Sony Pictures is financing and distribute them worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMendes is directing from scripts written by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne. A collaboration between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Mendes\u2019 Neal Street Productions, the films will be produced by Mendes, Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor of Neal Street, as well as Alexandra Derbyshire, in association with Apple Corps for Sony Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis marks the first time that The Beatles and Apple Corps Ltd. have authorized the use of the band members\u2019 life stories and music in scripted films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMorrissey is repped by B-Side Management and Anonymous Content; Best by Markham, Froggatt and Irwin; Norton by The Artists Partnership, WME, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole; Lloyd by Curtis Brown Group; Schofield by Lou Coulson Associates; Hoffman-Gill by Toogood Management; Darvill by Independent Talent Group, Strand Entertainment, and Peikoff Mahan; and Pally by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Del Shaw Moonves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Mendes has added eight to the cast of The Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event, Sony announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[134365,197908,197909,197910,197911,171,197912,197913,197914,975,19061,197915,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-424597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-adam-pally","9":"tag-arthur-darvill","10":"tag-bobby-schofield","11":"tag-daniel-hoffman-gill","12":"tag-david-morrissey","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-harry-lloyd","15":"tag-james-norton","16":"tag-leanne-best","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-sony","19":"tag-the-beatles-u2014-a-four-film-cinematic-event","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115662583774694754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}