This is the first time The Beatles and their record label have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.
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Musician-centered biopics have been all the rage in recent years, with Bryan Singer and Dexter Fletcher telling the story of Freddie Mercury and Queen in 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, and audiences preparing to take in both the music and the complicated stories of Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson in Back to Black and Michael, respectively. But here’s one we never saw coming—Sony Pictures has somehow nabbed the rights to go behind the real story of whom many consider to be the biggest rock band of all-time: The Beatles. Teaming up with Sam Mendes and Neal Street Productions, the revered studio will put together a gargantuan four-film production that will follow the band’s rise to icon status with each installment telling the story through the eyes of one of the members.
In case the mind-blowingly incredible scale of the title isn’t completely obvious at first, this will be the first time in history that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the families of the late John Lennon and George Harrsion have given over the rights to the fab four’s incredible story. Sony and the rest of the team backing the project also had to go through Apple Corps Ltd., the company that owns the band’s music which will be included in the groundbreaking film. With critically-acclaimed filmmaker, Mendes (American Beauty, Jughead, Empire of Light), behind each of the four films, this will undoubtedly be a unique take, giving each of the members their own voice in all the highs, lows, and drama that surrounded their world-wide takeover.
