Drummer Ringo Starr has expressed his enthusiasm for Sam Mendes’ huge four-part plan to carry the lives of The Beatles to the display. Initially introduced in February 2024, Mendes is in search of to create a collection of interconnected musical biopics with every film informed from the angle of every bandmate. Early studies have steered that Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan has been chosen to play Starr, although an official casting announcement remains to be but to be made. Nevertheless, Starr himself beforehand appeared to have confirmed this casting, and joking that the star is already taking drum classes.
Talking with Individuals, Starr voiced his pleasure for the mission and the “insanity” that underpins Mendes’ plans to make 4 Beatles films directly. Suggesting that whereas the movies might cowl every band member’s youthful lives, they’ll overlap, particularly when it comes time to cowl the story of him becoming a member of the band in 1962. Try his feedback beneath:
I’m excited that [Mendes] has taken the insanity of constructing 4 films on the similar time. My life as a lad, John’s life, Paul’s life, George’s life, I imply, it should work together ultimately. There’ll be Beatles in mine round after I joined, and there’ll be Beatles in Paul’s. We’ll all be there. So I’m excited to see what he does with it.
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At this stage, it’s unclear how a lot of every film will cowl the lives of every band member outdoors their time with The Beatles. Whereas avid followers will probably be conversant in most of the particulars surrounding their lives each earlier than and after the years they formally spent collectively as a band, for a lot of viewers it will likely be the years between their formation and eventual breakup that can present probably the most attention-grabbing story-telling fodder. If Starr’s feedback are to be taken at face worth, these years might largely be informed in each his and Paul McCartney’s films.
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Given Mendes’ distinctive method of constructing 4 Beatles films, every informed from a unique viewpoint, it might be essential to have every film cowl totally different moments of their careers and keep away from pointless repetition. Moreover, by utilizing this method, Ringo’s film may provide Mendes the right alternative to discover the band’s preliminary success and meteoric rise. Because the final band member to affix the band’s notorious lineup, it was the choice to interchange the band’s authentic drummer, Pete Finest, that lastly noticed the items start to fall into place on their journey to worldwide fame.
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Like every of his fellow Beatles, Starr’s story didn’t finish with the band’s dissolution in 1970, and it’s seemingly that Mendes’ films may also discover what occurred to him within the years that adopted. The query, nonetheless, is how a lot of that can occur inside Starr’s personal film, or revealed within the post-Beatles lives of his different bandmates. With John Lennon’s personal post-band story and tragic homicide more likely to play a serious function in his film, it might be attainable that the years instantly following The Beatles’ breakup may very well be informed from his perspective as an alternative.
Supply: Individuals
