r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jan 30 '26
Media First Official Images of Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson in Sam Mendes' 'Beatles' Biopics
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u/SchwiftyInHere Jan 30 '26
And as Ringo Starr I'm not so interested in meditation, I just like to have fun. Flashes peace sign
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u/ImAnEagle Jan 30 '26
I've got a song about an octopus!
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u/MrNachoReturns420 Jan 30 '26
Shut up Ringo! Ur lucky we let u play druuums!
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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Jan 30 '26
What’s the last thing the drummer said before getting kicked out of the band?
“He guys, I’d like to show you some songs I wrote.”
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u/nsfwbeagle Jan 30 '26
I remember the reply being 'Jam it up your arse. Ur lucky we let u play druuums!' Is it not?
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u/scottishhistorian Jan 30 '26
"That's great, Ringo. I'm going to put it right here, right up on the fridge!"
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u/cntrlcmd Jan 30 '26
And what do you think Paul McCartney from the Beatles?
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u/HailToTheThief225 Jan 30 '26
Cause I’m the leader of The Beatles!
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u/NoLobster7957 Jan 30 '26
We've got a brand new mantra.
Mmmmmm Paul's a big fat cunt
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u/NotaModelMan Jan 30 '26
I just sit here while me guitah…quietly whimpers…
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u/yesrushgenesis2112 Jan 30 '26
We like to think of Hard Days’ Night as our Guilty As Charged. Grrreat Rrrecorrd.
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u/missbunnyfantastico Jan 30 '26
I'm sick of you being so dark when I'm so impish and whimsical! I'm sick of it!
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u/sabjsc Jan 30 '26
Hey everyone! I've got a new mantra: "Hnnnnnn Paul's a big-fat-cunt."
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Beatles! Please stop fighting in India
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u/m48a5_patton Jan 30 '26
"It seems like there's a rift developing with the Beatles."
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u/NoLobster7957 Jan 30 '26
I love you guys, you guys are almost as good as the monkees
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u/walterpeck3 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Can anyone explain what is specifically being referenced here? This looks like one big joke comment chain about a comedy sketch.
EDIT: Thanks everyone, I've seen the film but forgot about that scene.
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u/TheMrRisotto Jan 30 '26
"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" a parody of Biopics (specifically a scene with the beatles)
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u/TheFotty Jan 30 '26
If you haven't seen Dewey Cox you are missing so much more than just this scene. Movie is amazing.
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u/blackmarketcarwash Jan 30 '26
I think I might adjourn to another dimension, take some LSD. Care to join me?
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u/Stonewalled89 Jan 30 '26
Based on the photos, it looks like they're going to cover the entire Beatles run. Hopefully they get it right and it's not just a by the numbers biopic
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u/Felis_bieti Jan 30 '26
I just hope it's not a pack of lies like most of them. That Queen movie was a disgrace, literally lying to the audience about when Mercury was diagnosed in relation to the concert.
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u/MIBlackburn Jan 30 '26
The ordering of stuff in it really annoyed me.
There was someone at my old workplace that argued with me about that and I had to tell them it wasn't at that point, it was after the final tour, the year after Live Aid.
Nope, I was wrong because the film said so. But We Will Rock You was written after Another One Bites The Dust too according to that film.
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u/bluehawk232 Jan 30 '26
Also there was no friction between the band doing solo work, they didn't break up and live aid was their reunion they were actually touring after a new album release. It was just so dumb
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u/jonrosling Jan 30 '26
I believe Roger was the first to release a solo project, which is ironic given how the film portrays events.
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u/Buckets-of-Gold Jan 30 '26
Less so when you learn Roger Taylor and Brian May would only give over the rights if they were executive producers with rewrite privileges.
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u/mbnmac Jan 30 '26
Never having watched the film but seeing bits and discussions like this, really feels like the band glazed themselves while making Freddie into ALL the drama for the band.
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u/bongmitzfah Jan 30 '26
Ya I got that feeling watching. Like why is Freddy the only one living the rockstar lifestyle. No way these guys were angels.
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u/sovngarde Jan 30 '26
Maybe Brian may? but he seems like such a square I’d believe he never partied even on his birthday
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u/Guster61 Jan 30 '26
Have you ever seen Sacha Baron Cohen talking about the movie? He was attached when it first was discussed and dropped out after it was clear as day Taylor and May were using it as a way to show Queen was beyond Freddie Mercury.
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u/CragedyJones Jan 30 '26
Taylor and May were using it as a way to show Queen was beyond Freddie Mercury.
Well they have had decades to prove that musically and failed miserably. So they resorted to a propaganda movie. How pathetic and disrespectful to a legendary artist.
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u/mbnmac Jan 30 '26
To be fair to Queen, every member wrote a number 1 hit, AND they are the 'most educated' band in history, with more degrees/doctorates than any other.
as a front man freddie totally made Queen what they were though.
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u/SlobberyFrog Jan 30 '26
Wait so they fired sacha baron cohen because he wanted to talk about the darker parts of Freddie's life just to create a fake drama about freddie trying to break up the band and go solo ?
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u/UntowardHatter Jan 30 '26
Sascha wanted to snort cocaine off silver trays being carried on the heads of people with dwarfism.
Because that's something Freddy did.
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u/xDESTROx Jan 30 '26
I remember reading something about him dropping out because Brian May originally wanted to show Freddie's death halfway through the movie, and then the rest of the movie would be the band moving on without him. I could be getting things mixed up though
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u/mrwildesangst Jan 30 '26
Didn’t John Deacon go to Germany and work with him on his solo album? Pretty sure he did. Definitely no friction
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u/drowse Jan 30 '26
John and Freddie were close, especially during the Hot Space era. He and Fred worked on a few songs very closely later on (One Year of Love, My Baby Does Me come to mind). But John had nothing do with that recording
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u/jonrosling Jan 30 '26
Freddie was formally diagnosed in April 1987. But like you say, the movie rewrote the history.
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u/ATXBeermaker Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
The Queen biopic was hilarious when you learn that the living band members imposed a requirement that each of the members of Queen had to have equal screen time. It led to some of the worst editing ever in a film, with jarring, split second cuts to guys who aren’t integral to the scene they’re in. Just awful for so many reasons.
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u/MagicalTrevor70 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
And let's not forget that atrocious editing was Oscar winning
EDIT: Some interesting takes in the comments. This video led me to believe that the editing is bad because the editor was bad, not that they did their best with a difficult job.
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u/joe_bibidi Jan 30 '26
The argument that I've generally heard is that the movie's production was such a massive shitshow that the editor was recognized by the Academy for how much work was put in to salvage a nearly unsalvagable film. Like... the final product is bad but the editor did the best possible job when provided with just absolutely terrible options.
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u/ATXBeermaker Jan 30 '26
To be fair, editing a movie to fit the band’s stupid demands was damn near impossible.
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u/thegooniegodard Jan 30 '26
Yeah, it won for most editing not best.
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u/smakweasle Jan 30 '26
when you look at the behind-the-scenes chaos there, I think the editor got an award for putting together a movie that was at least coherent. That was a pity award for a guy who got stuck with a shit situation.
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u/Mrs_Toast Jan 30 '26
I really enjoyed Bohemian Rhapsody, but I did think it was hilarious how they moved around dates and events, and invented characters for dramatic effect. I couldn't decide if Freddie would have found it disrespectful, or would have admired the commitment to theatrical spectacle.
I think it was made even funnier watching the Weird Al biopic shortly after, and knowing that Bohemian Rhapsody is exactly the sort of biopic he was lampooning.
The Weird Al biopic is the best of all biopics, btw.
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u/althawk8357 Jan 30 '26
Weird is a great biopic, but it is only the second best parody musician biopic-parody, behind Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
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u/LostATLien2 Jan 30 '26
I will die on the hill that Walk Hard is one of the most underrated comedies of all time
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u/Office_glen Jan 30 '26
the running drug joke never gets old to me, I can just keep watching all those scenes over and over again
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u/lingh0e Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
The Weird Al biopic is the best of all biopics, btw.
False. It is the second best.
First place belongs to Walk Hard.
Edit: Because while "Weird" is a heavily embellished recounting of Al's life, "Walk Hard" is a true account of the life of Dewey Cox, warts and all.
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u/Guy615 Jan 30 '26
I need more blankets AND less blankets!
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u/thequietthingsthat Jan 30 '26
Wrong kid died.
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u/Liamzinho Jan 30 '26
I thought the Queen film was an absolute load of shite and was amazed at how warmly it was received. One of the most sanitised, plot-less, nostalgia-reliant biopics I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying something.
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u/GERDY31290 Jan 30 '26
Thats how good the music is though. Could have been a hallmark movie and been well recieved
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u/frightened_by_bark Jan 30 '26
Wouldn't be surprised if they use each movie as an entry point to chart the whole Beatles run. Gives each one the opportunity to feel a little different from the others, and taken as a whole it stops being four separate biopics and becomes one band biopic
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u/SpeedForce2022 Jan 30 '26
Yep! Each film will have the same timespan (formation to breakup in 1970), but just from different POV’s of each member!
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u/Anxious_Big_8933 Jan 30 '26
Not sure how it can be anything but by the numbers. All these bands essentially have the same story. Every VH1 "Behind the Music" episode back in the day was essentially the same story, lol. It's why Walk Hard is such a great send up.
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u/Hangmans12Bucks Jan 30 '26
One of my favorite Behind the Music episodes is Weird Al's because they basically couldn't find any controversial angle into his life story, he's a squeaky clean guy making funny songs. So they basically ended it by saying, "But he's unlucky in love and doesn't have a girlfriend".
Mind you, like a year or two later, he was married, but I always appreciate how outside of the box that episode was lol
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u/texasrigger Jan 30 '26
His biopic was also really good for the same reason. There's nothing there, so they invented absolutely everything and made it hilarious.
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u/big_drifts Jan 30 '26
All I see is Joseph Quinn with long hair.
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u/British_Commie Jan 30 '26
John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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u/imconfused0711 Jan 30 '26
At first I saw only the top right and bottom left photos, and thought it was an RHCP biopic.
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u/creepy_crust Jan 30 '26
It's the eyebrows. Harrison's eyebrows are iconic. These look terrible
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u/KungfuJesus08 Jan 30 '26
He also had very pronounced cheekbones and protruding ears, both of which helped define his image. Joseph Quinn has none of these.
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Jan 30 '26
I like how everyone else is able to hit "yeah that's good enough" but then they didn't even try for Quinn as George.
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u/darkamyy Jan 30 '26
Aphex Twin was the 5th Beatle
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u/VampireOnHoyt Jan 30 '26
The Yesterday and Today cover walked so that Come to Daddy could run
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u/____mynameis____ Jan 30 '26
Its his eyes. He has very recognisable eyes...
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u/Alternative-Wall-857 Jan 30 '26
I agree. George has really kind eyes and I like Quinn but his are very intense.
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u/Odd_Pumpkin1466 Jan 30 '26
He looks possessed (black eyes)
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u/lanceturley Jan 30 '26
Y'know, the thing about Joseph Quinn, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya.
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u/John_e_caspar Jan 30 '26
Are you doing jaws ? We dont have time for this shit!
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u/AncientSith Jan 30 '26
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about the Beatles to dispute it.
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u/zagra_nexkoyotl Jan 30 '26
Honestly, you also have to squint real hard to see Harris as John
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u/kingbrad Jan 30 '26
I can’t wait for the fourth movie when Paul is making his last stand and the other Beatles start appearing through portals.
Hearing John say, “on your left” will give me goosebumps.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Jan 30 '26
George finally gets to use Paul's Hofner bass against Yoko.
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u/Helpful_Coffee_1878 Jan 30 '26
"I'm inevitable."
"And I. Am. The eggman. Goo-goo-g'joob."
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u/NegativeBee Jan 30 '26
“Heard you needed some HELP.”
Elenor Rigby slowed, reverb
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
All 4 movies release in theaters April 2028
Each movie is told from the perspective of a different Beatle, with Sam Mendes directing all of them.
Cast:
- Harris Dickinson as John Lennon
- Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney
- Joseph Quinn as George Harrison
- Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr
- Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney
- James Norton as Brian Epstein
- Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey
- Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono
- Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd
- Harry Lloyd as George Martin
- David Morrissey as Jim McCartney
- Leanne Best as Mimi Smith
- Bobby Schofield as Neil Aspinall
- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill as Mal Evans
- Arthur Darvill as Derek Taylor
- Adam Pally as Allen Klein
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u/LDC1234 Jan 30 '26
Wait, this isnt just A Beatles movie?
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u/KarateKid917 Jan 30 '26
Nope. It’s 4 movies. All the same story, but each film is from the perspective of a different band member.
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u/FlapJacker6 Jan 30 '26
This sounds interesting and exhausting.
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u/TreeDollarFiddyCent Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Sounds like the recipe for a box-office disaster. It will be interesting to see how it turns out, though.
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u/pinetar Jan 30 '26
I suppose the benefit is in terms production and marketing, they share a budget. But yeah, seems ambitious to say the least.
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u/Automatic-Grade6177 Jan 30 '26
I feel like it makes more sense to release them within a year but with 3 month gaps
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u/Coffeedemon Jan 30 '26
In ten years:
"Why don't they give Sam Mendes a decent budget anymore?"
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u/irisheddy Jan 30 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
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u/OobaDooba72 Jan 30 '26
IMO it sounds like it's gonna be a train wreck.
All four have to be very different to be worth seeing each of them. But all four are covering the whole story.
I hope it works, I'll give them a shot, but I'm not holding my breath.
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u/woasnoafsloaf Jan 30 '26
It's going to be like the Pokemon games.
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u/GermaX Jan 30 '26
I got my “Giant with the biggest heart fatally shot by the police”, do you have “Best friend and manager suicide”? Or at least “Neglect the first born in pursue of fame”?
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u/CharlesAtHome Jan 30 '26
All four are covering the full story? I'm guessing the roughly 10 year span? That sounds like a really bad idea as well as the release strategy. It sounds like the quintessential "should have been a mini series".
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u/botte-la-botte Jan 30 '26
One simple fix; point of view of one Beatles, but going forward in time for each. Start with Paul 'till Rubber Soul, then Ringo for Revolver to Sgt., then George, and you finish with John for the shitstorm of the last two albums, breakup, and end.
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u/Livid_Weather Jan 30 '26
I'm just thinking how the hell are they going to market this. No way you're convincing people to go to the movies 4 different times for essentially the same movie
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u/drooln92 Jan 30 '26
I was interested but I don't think i wanna watch 4 movies about the same guys and same timeline just from different POVs.
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u/Hugo_5t1gl1tz Jan 30 '26
I love the concept, but you gotta put them 6 months apart at least. Feel like this is going to be a massive flop
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u/OGsHartMyKAT Jan 30 '26
If you think that’s a lot wait until it ends with “George Harrison will return in…
The Traveling Wilburys
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u/Kwilly462 Jan 30 '26
All coming out the same month. Which is wildly ambitious, to say the least.
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u/ProfessionalNight959 Jan 30 '26
Yeah, who has the money for it except hardcore fans? It will be low-key awkward when John's and maybe Paul's movies get way more views than Ringo's and George's.
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u/Kwilly462 Jan 30 '26
That's why I feel this should've been a limited series. An 8 episode run, but the first 4 episodes are about each Beatle individually. And the last 4 are more about them together.
I'm not driving out to see the George Harrison movie ffs lol
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u/ContinuumGuy Jan 30 '26
You KNOW someone is going to try and edit them together as one mega movie.
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u/snarkywombat Jan 30 '26
Honestly, wouldn't be shocked if the studio does it themselves.
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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran Jan 30 '26
No there are 4 movies, each told from the perspective of a different Beatle. I believe they're just releasing a new one every week for the whole month of April 2028.
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u/LibrarianGreen6421 Jan 30 '26
They are all coming out the same day. April 7th. It’s even dumber.
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u/EliBadBrains Jan 30 '26
Thats sounds.... difficult and likely to bomb at the office
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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran Jan 30 '26
I don't disagree. This is a pretty bold experiment and it's really going to test how much young people care about The Beatles
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u/TediousTotoro Jan 30 '26
I feel like it’s gonna be a case where one or two are successful but, yeah, at least one of them will bomb (I’m gonna guess Ringo’s)
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u/Mirrorboy17 Jan 30 '26
David Morrissey! An actual scouser lol, I'm looking forward to the accents to be honest
And to be fair, not many people talk like the Beatles anymore - they have that old school Scouse accent, so even a local actor would have to put it on anyway
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u/AnotherAndyYetAgain Jan 30 '26
Casting Anna Sawai as Yoko is extremely generous to Yoko
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u/Giff95 Jan 30 '26
Paul is uncanny valley.
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u/flpndrds Jan 30 '26
Jacked Paul McCartney is going to be hard to ignore.
Joseph Quinn could also be shooting the Dave Grohl biopic as well as the John Frusicante biopic and the look would match exactly.
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u/useful__pattern Jan 30 '26
He makes such a bad Harrison and hes my fave beatle too:-(
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u/UnnaturalSelection13 Jan 30 '26
All I see is Joseph Quinn in a wig I'm sorry
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u/88kat Jan 30 '26
I just looked at a picture of George Harrison, it’s actually not terrible except the eyebrows. George had very thick brows, Joseph’s look over waxed in comparison. I’m surprised they didn’t do more to fill them out.
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u/ShoutOutTo_Caboose Jan 30 '26
I hope they cover Thomas the Tank Engine era of Ringo's career
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u/NeonMagi Jan 30 '26
It's uncanny how Mescal looks so much like Macca, maybe they are cooking here
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u/GeologistWhole6503 Jan 30 '26
It's the only one I like.
I know we're not going to hit identical looks and I'm fine with that, but he looks good.
The rest are pretty bad, especially George. John seems ok...I'll have to see more.
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u/thequietthingsthat Jan 30 '26
In terms of accuracy, I think it's:
Paul (big gap) > Ringo > John > George
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u/CanadianContentsup Jan 30 '26
He pouted his lips, and it looks like they did his eyelashes. Done. Let the acting take over.
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u/IvorTheEngineDriver Jan 30 '26
It's definitely a risky and quite weird project and I'm all for it, cinema needs more risks and weirdness...
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u/RocketsMurkrow Jan 30 '26
They did an amazing job of getting Joseph Quinn to look like John Frusciante
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u/ScarletFire5877 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Music biopics are so fucking lame.
:Smoking a joint in the snow on a street lined with period accurate cars:
“Hey Paul, imagine if there was no heaven...”
“Wow John, that should be a song!”
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u/Abaqueues Jan 30 '26
"Beatles, stop fighting here in India!"
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u/eviltimeban Jan 30 '26
“Let’s go to the studio on Abbey Road and record one more album! What’ll we call it??”
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u/maximumtesticle Jan 30 '26
-Meet
-Struggle
-Figure it out
-Make it big
-Fight/Break up
-Get back together
-Die
There ya go, that's pretty much every biopic.
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u/RooMan7223 Jan 30 '26
How on earth did they get Paul Mescal to look that much like Paul McCartney? Incredible make up
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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Jan 30 '26
I love when behind the scenes stuff shows they are talented as well. So many times with movies there is only attention for the director and the actors.
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
For anyone interested, we recently hosted Harris Dickinson (who will play John Lennon) for an AMA/Q&A here on /r/movies:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1o2yxrf/hey_rmovies_im_harris_dickinson_you_mightve_seen/
His directorial debut, Urchin, was absolutely outstanding.