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Paul Mescal called Paul McCartney “an extraordinary man”. And revealed that he spent time with the musician, which he will embody in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles-Biopic.
In conversation with “indiewire” Mescal said about McCartney: “Time to spend with him. It is a crazy sentence to say that I spent time with this man, let alone play him.”
Mescal did not reveal any further details about the project or his time with McCartney. When asked whether he would sing in the film, he replied: “Yes, yes, absolutely yes.”
Beatles films and star cast
In addition to Mescal as a McCartney, Harris Dickinson’s Beatles films as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr will be seen. Keoghan said at the beginning of the year that he spent time with the drummer. He went home too rigid. I talked to him. And watched him drumming.
Keoghan then joked: “He asked me to play, but I didn’t play drums for Ringo … it was one of these moments when you just frighten it.”
Mendes’ Beatles films-summarized under the title “The Beatles-A Four Film Cinematic Event”-are to be released in April 2028. The films were described as the “first binge-capable cinema experience”, but it is still unclear whether everyone is published at the same time or staggered.
Four films, four perspectives
While the four films tell the history of the band, each film will focus on one of the Fab Four. When the project was officially announced at the beginning of the year, Mendes said about this approach: “There are four very different people. Maybe this is an opportunity to understand them a little deeper.”
He added: “I just felt that the history of the band was too big to fit into a single film and turn it into a TV mini series just didn’t feel right.”