On-location filming in London has provided an early look at the production of The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event, as actors Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn, and Barry Keoghan were seen recreating the band’s famous Abbey Road album cover.
In video footage captured outside EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in St John’s Wood, the four lead performers were filmed walking across the historic zebra crosswalk. Dickinson, portraying John Lennon, led the crossing, followed by Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Mescal as a barefoot Paul McCartney, and Quinn as George Harrison. The original photograph, taken on August 8, 1969, by freelance photographer Iain Macmillan, served as the cover for the band’s eleventh studio album.
Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (1917, Skyfall), the four-part interconnected project marks the first time that surviving members McCartney and Starr, the estates of Lennon and Harrison, and the band’s company Apple Corps have granted full life and music rights for a scripted theatrical feature. Each movie will chronicle the history of the band from the perspective of an individual member, with the storylines intersecting across the four installments.
Produced through Mendes’ Neal Street Productions alongside Sony Pictures Entertainment, the expansive ensemble cast also features Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, James Norton as manager Brian Epstein, Harry Lloyd as producer George Martin, Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey, 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, and Adam Pally as Allen Klein.
Sony Pictures has scheduled all four films for a theatrical rollout in April 2028.
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