Neal Street and Sony Pictures Announce Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne To Write The Four Screenplays For Sam Mendes’ The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event

Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari, Spectre), Academy Award® winner Peter Straughan (Conclave, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and BAFTA and Tony Award winner Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Enola Holmes) are set to write the screenplays for Sony Pictures, Sam Mendes, and Neal Street’s biopics of The Beatles, whose stories will be told with four distinct theatrical feature films.

As conceived by Mendes, who will direct the four theatrical feature films – one from each band member’s point-of-view – which will intersect to tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history.  The films mark the first time Apple Corps Ltd. and The Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.

As previously announced at CinemaCon in March, the four films will star Harris Dickinson (as John Lennon), Barry Keoghan (as Ringo Starr), Paul Mescal (as Paul McCartney) and Joseph Quinn (as George Harrison).

The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event is a Neal Street production in association with Apple Corps for Sony Pictures and will be released in April 2028.

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