Harris Dickinson (John Lennon), Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney), Barry Keoghan (Ringo Starr) and Joseph Quinn (George Harrison) star in Sony's Beatles movies. John Russo Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Sony's four-movie Beatles biopic project is starting to come together. In a unique marketing strategy, the studio printed four different postcards - each showing one of the core stars in the first looks at the characters - that were dispersed throughout the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts for students to find. Director Sam Mendes' The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event hits theaters in April 2028 and star Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. Related Stories Business LinkedIn Founder's AI Christmas Album Is as Bad as You'd Expect Business Gus Wenner Launches VC Firm, Bets That Social Show 'Track Star' Is "MTV of Today" "We've been given exclusive postcards promoting the new Beatles movies!" LIPA's official Instagram account posted Thursday, with the studio paying homage to the iconic music group's hometown in England. "We've hidden them around LIPA, and we want students to find them." Production has begun on the four films that will each focus on a different band member. Rounding out the cast are Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, James Norton as Brian Epstein, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd, Harry Lloyd as George Martin, and Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey. View this post on Instagram The movies officially announced the four leads at last year's CinemaCon, where Mendes took the stage with the stars. "We're not just making one film about the Beatles - we're making four," the filmmaker told the crowd. "Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply." Producing the films for Neal Street Productions are Mendes, Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor. Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari), Oscar winner Peter Straughan (Conclave) and BAFTA and Tony Award winner Jack Thorne (Adolescence) wrote the screenplays. View this post on Instagram The Beatles are the biggest-selling music act of all time, per the RIAA. The films arrive as Hollywood has continued to embrace music biopics, with Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere hitting theaters last year from 20th Century, while Lionsgate is set to release its Michael Jackson film in April. "You have to match the boldness of the idea with a bold release strategy," Sony film boss Tom Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter about the Beatles project that earned the Oscar-winning director a coveted signoff from the group's selective label Apple Corps. "There hasn't been an enterprise like this before, and you can't think about it in traditional releasing terms." THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Wuthering Heights 'Wuthering Heights' Director Emerald Fennell on Breaking With the Book to Cast Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff: "There Are So Many Different Takes" Vladimir Putin 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' Review: Intimate Doc Captures the Slow Erosion of Hope in the Russian Hinterlands Oscars The Guardian of the Film Academy's Treasures on Its Museum, Hollywoodland Exhibit and YouTube Deal Sundance Film Festival Reviews 'The Shitheads' Review: Dave Franco and O'Shea Jackson Jr. Go on a Hellish Road Trip That Gets Better as It Goes THR Original Video Odessa A'zion Is Down to Play Crazy International Film Festival Rotterdam 'Tell Me What You Feel' Digs Into New Masculinity and How Capitalism and "Over-Therapeutization" Affect Modern Love Wuthering Heights 'Wuthering Heights' Director Emerald Fennell on Breaking With the Book to Cast Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff: "There Are So Many Different Takes" Vladimir Putin 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' Review: Intimate Doc Captures the Slow Erosion of Hope in the Russian Hinterlands Oscars The Guardian of the Film Academy's Treasures on Its Museum, Hollywoodland Exhibit and YouTube Deal Sundance Film Festival Reviews 'The Shitheads' Review: Dave Franco and O'Shea Jackson Jr. Go on a Hellish Road Trip That Gets Better as It Goes THR Original Video Odessa A'zion Is Down to Play Crazy International Film Festival Rotterdam 'Tell Me What You Feel' Digs Into New Masculinity and How Capitalism and "Over-Therapeutization" Affect Modern Love