Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce are all joining Saoirse Ronan in director Sam Mendes’ quartet of Beatles films. Update 3rd November 2025: Last month, it was announced that Saoirse Ronan is to play Linda McCartney, wife of Paul, in director Sam Mendes’ quartet of films about The Beatles. It’s now been announced ... The Beatles | Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce and Saoirse Ronan join cast
Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce are all joining Saoirse Ronan in director Sam Mendes’ quartet of Beatles films.
Update 3rd November 2025: Last month, it was announced that Saoirse Ronan is to play Linda McCartney, wife of Paul, in director Sam Mendes’ quartet of films about The Beatles. It’s now been announced who’ll be joining Ronan as the other bandmembers’ spouses.
Variety reveals that Anna Sawai will play Yoko Ono, Amiee Lou Wood will be Pattie Boyd, and Mia McKenna-Bruce will appear as Maureen Starkey.
“Maureen, Linda, Yoko and Pattie are four fascinating and unique figures in their own right,” Mendes said in a statement, “and I’m thrilled that we’ve managed to persuade four of the most talented women working in film today to join this amazing adventure.”
As you’ll find below, the films will each be told from the perspective of a member of The Beatles – and, presumably, their significant others. So we’ll get one movie about John Lennon Yoko Ono, one about Paul and Linda McCartney, one dedicated to George Harrison and Patty Boyd, and one for Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey.
The $400m media experiment is due for release in April 2028.
Our original story follows…
Update 9th October 2025: With their release over four years away, Sam Mendes’ films based on The Beatles are still getting their casting sorted out. With the Fab Four actors now in place (see below), it’s reported that Ladybird and Brooklyn star Saoirse Ronan will play Linda McCartney (nee Eastman) – photographer, vocalist, author, and founder of a successful plant-based food company.
Each of Mendes’ films -collectively titled The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event – will follow the story of an individual member of the band. According to Deadline's sources, Linda McCartney will figure heavily in the movie dedicated to McCartney (logically enough) though it’s uncertain whether she’ll also appear in the other three.
Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney in the movies, joined by Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon. All four films are due to be released in cinemas simultaneously in April 2028, making it quite an experiment in media marketing – and with a reported budget of $400m for all of them, an expensive one.
Previously…
1st April 2025: At CinemaCon (which is currently taking place in Las Vegas), Beatlemania swept through Caesars Palace as Sam Mendes officially unveiled his cast for the planned four-film biopic about The Beatles. Along with revealing the cast for the films, a few other rumoured details were also confirmed.
First though, that cast. The following four names have long been whirling around, but now they’re official. The Beatles biopic will star Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. Not that you need us to tell you, but that’s one talented quartet of actors right there.
We’d imagine that Mendes will be assembling quite a supporting cast as well, but there’s no new names to report at this time.
Next up, further details emerged regarding the films’ release date, a detail which had seen some wild suggestions floated, including a 2027 release window and the possibility that all four films might release on the same day.
As it stands, the four films will all release in the same month, which is still a pretty bold move. April 2028 is the planned month, meaning that reports from earlier this year which suggested the films wouldn’t make a 2027 release window were indeed accurate.
The release strategy is being dubbed the ‘first binge-able theatrical experience’, bringing Netflix-style viewing habits to the cinema. Should this prove to be a success, we’ll likely see more studios follow suit. Is anybody up for The Beekeeper 2, 3, 4 and 5 releasing on the same day in cinemas? Because we’re most assuredly fine with that idea.
‘We’re not just making one film about the Beatles – we’re making four,’ Mendes said as the casting reveal closed out Sony’s CinemaCon presentation with a Merseybeat finale. ‘Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply,’ he added.
That will certainly be the case given that each Beatle will get their own film. Fascinatingly, we’ll likely see key events in the band’s history through several narrative perspectives. More as we hear it…
