A quartet of Beatles biopics, one focusing on each member of the band, is currently in the works from director Sam Mendes, with the full approval and the musical rights of the band.
According to Deadline, Mendes will direct all four of the films, which will “tell interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view.” Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to the films and plans to release all of them in 2027.
Mendes will produce the films with his Neal Street Productions partner Pippa Harris, Neal Street’s Julie Pastor, and Jeff Jones, who serves as the CEO of The Beatles’ company Apple Corps Ltd.
“Apple Corps is delighted to collaborate with Sam, Pippa and Julie to explore each Beatle’s unique story and to bring them together in a suitably captivating and innovative way,” Jones said in a statement. “Sony Pictures’ enthusiastic support, championing the project’s scope and creative vision from the start, has been invaluable for all of us.”
“We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” promised Harris in her own statement. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege.”
Plenty of details still need to be ironed out, including who will play each member of the Fab Four, which will undoubtedly be some of the most sought-after roles in recent memory. And while Mendes intends to direct each of the films himself, he still needs to find writers to pen the films’ scripts.
Mendes’ four-part biopic is just the latest ambitious film project chronicling The Beatles’ history. In 2021, Peter Jackson premiered The Beatles: Get Back, an eight-hour documentary focused on the sessions surrounding the making of Let It Be.