The quartet will each headline their own Beatles film, which will be released in April 2028.

Meet the Beatles! See Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, and Harris Dickinson as the Fab Four in first photos

The quartet will each headline their own Beatles film, which will be released in April 2028.

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on January 30, 2026 12:38 p.m. ET

Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, and Harris Dickinson at CinemaCon 2025. Credit:

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The Beatles movies are all starting to come together. **

On Friday, Sony Pictures unveiled the first look at actors Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, and Harris Dickinson as the Fab Four ahead of director Sam Mendes' four-film cinematic event, which will be released in April 2028.

The snapshots show Mescal, 29, as a young, doe-eyed Paul McCartney seemingly during a visit to the Cavern Club, the local Liverpool venue where the band played often in their early years.

The Beatles in 1966.

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The other three photographs, however, appear to garner their inspiration from the Beatles’ appearances in the ‘70s, with Keoghan, 33, sporting drummer Ringo Starr’s mustache, moptop, and polka-dotted shirt from the band’s *Let It Be *recordings. **

Dickinson, 29, also appears to be in his *Let It Be* era as he whistles into a microphone while wearing a jean jacket and John Lennon’s signature shoulder-length hair and wiry glasses. And, last but not least, a similarly long-haired Quinn, 32 gives a stern glance as he portrays George Harrison.

Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney.

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Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr.

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The images arrive one day after the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts exclusively hid postcard versions across its campus for eager students to find and share on social media. The snapshots immediately went viral online, with fans reacting to the actors and respective transformations into the eight-time Grammy-winning band.**

Mescal, Keoghan, Quinn, and Dickinson are each headlining their own respective Beatles film, which will dive deep into the minds of the Liverpudlian lads who changed music forever. Touted by Mendes as a “four film cinematic event,” they are all set to be released in theaters simultaneously on April 7, 2028.

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While there have been many Beatles film over the years, Mendes' upcoming venture marks the first time that the Beatles and its company Apple Corps Ltd. have ever granted their full life stories *and* their music rights to any film. "I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies," the director said in a 2024 press release.**

The images arrive just days after Keoghan showed off his new Ringo-inspired look while attending the London premiere of the film,* Crime 101*. The *Saltburn* actor has spoken the most about his transformation into the peace-loving "Octopus's Garden" crooner, confessing that he just couldn't *act naturally* when he met Starr for the first time.

Harris Dickinson as John Lennon.

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Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

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"And when I was talking to him, I couldn't look at him," Keoghan explained at the time. "I was nervous, like right now. But he's like, 'You can look at me.'"

He also told Quinn that he "looked more like Ringo than Ringo" when his costar gave him a ring-o while live on the BBC Radio 1 *Breakfast Show* last July. “I’m doing the screen test,” Keoghan confirmed, adding, “It’s great. I look amazing. I’m not even messing — I look amazing."

Joining the quartet on their magical mystery film odyssey are Saoirse Ronan, who will play Linda McCartney; Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono; Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd; Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey Tigrett; Harry Lloyd as record producer and "fifth Beatle" George Martin; and James Norton as the band's beloved manager, Brian Epstein. **

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