Ringo Starr Is "Excited" About The Four-Part Beatles Movie From Sam Mendes

Drummer Ringo Starr has expressed his enthusiasm for Sam Mendes’ mᴀssive four-part plan to bring the lives of The Beatles to the screen. Originally announced in February 2024, Mendes is seeking to create a series of interconnected musical biopics with each movie told from the perspective of each bandmate. Early reports have suggested that Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan has been selected to play Starr, though an official casting announcement is still yet to be made. However, Starr himself previously appeared to have confirmed this casting, and joking that the star is already taking drum lessons.

Speaking with People, Starr voiced his excitement for the project and the “madness” that underpins Mendes’ plans to make four Beatles movies at once. Suggesting that while the films may cover each band member’s younger lives, they will overlap, especially when it comes time to cover the story of him joining the band in 1962. Check out his comments below:

I’m excited that [Mendes] has taken the madness of making four movies at the same time. My life as a lad, John’s life, Paul’s life, George’s life, I mean, it must interact in some way. There’ll be Beatles in mine around when 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.

What Ringo Starr’s Comments Mean For The Beatles Movies

Ringo’s Movie May Serve As The Catalyst For Telling The Band’s Success Story

At this stage, it is unclear how much of each movie will cover the lives of each band member outside their time with The Beatles. While avid fans will be familiar with many of the details surrounding their lives both before and after the years they officially spent together as a band, for many viewers it will be the years between their formation and eventual breakup that will provide the most interesting story-telling fodder. If Starr’s comments are to be taken at face value, these years may largely be told in both his and Paul McCartney’s movies.

Given Mendes’ unique approach of making four Beatles movies, each told from a different point of view, it may be necessary to have each movie cover different moments in their careers and avoid unnecessary repeтιтion. Furthermore, by using this approach, Ringo’s movie could offer Mendes the perfect opportunity to explore the band’s initial success and meteoric rise. As the last band member to join the band’s infamous lineup, it was the decision to replace the band’s original drummer, Pete Best, that finally saw the pieces begin to fall into place on their journey to worldwide fame.

Our Take On Telling Ringo’s Story After The Beatles

The Post-Beatles Years Are Probably Best Told From Another POV

Like each of his fellow Beatles, Starr’s story did not end with the band’s dissolution in 1970, and it is likely that Mendes’ movies will also explore what happened to him in the years that followed. The question, however, is how much of that will happen within Starr’s own movie, or revealed in the post-Beatles lives of his other bandmates. With John Lennon’s own post-band story and tragic murder likely to play a major role in his movie, it may be possible that the years immediately following The Beatles’ breakup could be told from his perspective instead.

Source: People