According to Deadline, Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth, Oscar winner Peter Straughan and BAFTA and Tony winner Jack Thorne are on board to write the screenplays for director Sam Mendes' quartet of Beatles films.
Each film will focus on a particular Beatle. It's not known if the screenwriters will each write their own script or collaborate on all four films.
According to Deadline:
The four films will star Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.
Sony Pictures will finance and distribute worldwide with full theatrical windows in April 2028. The Beatles— A Four-Film Cinematic Event is a Neal Street production in association with Apple Corps for Sony Pictures. Mendes is producing alongside his Neal Street partner Pippa Harris and Neal Street’s Julie Pastor. Alexandra Derbyshire (Wonka) is also producing.
Butterworth’s recent screenwriting credits include James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Other credits include Spectre, Black Mass and Edge of Tomorrow. Butterworth is also an award-winning playwright who wrote The Ferryman, for which he won the Tony for Best Play, and most recently The Hills of California, which just received seven Tony nominations including for Best Play. Both plays were directed by Mendes.
Straughan most recently won the Oscar for his screenplay for Edward Berger’s thriller Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, and Isabella Rossellini. He previously co-wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with his late wife, Bridget O’Connor. The screenplay earned them an Academy Award nomination and won the BAFTA. His other film credits include Our Brand Is Crisis, and Frank. For television, Straughan adapted Hilary Mantel’s bestselling novel Wolf Hall, which won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series. He also wrote its sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.
Thorne is a BAFTA- and Tony-winning screenwriter and theatre writer. His recent hit series Adolescence has garnered widespread acclaim. His film credits include The Swimmers; Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2 starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin; The Aeronauts, starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne; and Wonder, starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. His other TV credits include Toxic Town, His Dark Materials, Help and Best Interests. On the theater side, Thorne wrote the Tony- and Olivier-winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and most recently The Motive and the Cue, directed by Mendes.
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