With theaters getting ready for a British Invasion forward of the upcoming Beatles cinematic occasion in 2028, Ringo Starr is ensuring the films get it proper.
After flying to London in April to fulfill with director Sam Mendes, the Beatles drummer revealed he had points with how his first marriage to Maureen Starkey Tigrett was depicted within the script for the upcoming four-part biopic concerning the legendary British rock band, which is penned by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne.
“He had a author — superb author, nice repute, and he wrote it nice, but it surely had nothing to do with Maureen and I,” Starr defined to The New York Instances. “That’s not how we had been. I’d say, ‘We’d by no means do this.’”
Starr is now happy together with his depiction within the script, however he stays skeptical of how Mendes will shoot 4 movies at a time. “However he’ll do what he’s doing, and I’ll ship him peace and love,” he added.
Barry Keoghan, who’s been tapped to play Starr, beforehand recounted his “completely pretty” assembly with the actual percussionist, who “performed the drums for me,” recalling it as “was a type of moments the place you’re simply in awe and simply froze.”
Sam Mendes, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson and Paul Mescal attend the opening evening of CinemaCon 2025 on March 31, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Photos for CinemaCon)
Final February, Deadline completely revealed that Mendes is set to direct every installment of The Beatles — A 4-Movie Cinematic Occasion, by means of his Neal Road Productions and Sony Footage Leisure. Every movie will join, telling the band’s story from every member’s perspective.
Along with Keoghan, the solid is rounded out by Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon.
