The four-film series 'The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event', is currently scheduled for a simultaneous release in April 2028

The cast of Sam Mendes’ forthcoming Beatles films has been filmed recreating the famous cover of ‘Abbey Road’.

The artwork for the 1969 album features John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison crossing the road in a line outside the studio where the record was made.

Fan recorded footage appeared on social media yesterday, August 16, showing Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal and Joseph Quinn wearing outfits that matched those seen on the original cover. The video can be watched below.

Another clip captures Quinn, who portrays Harrison, walking across the street alone while his fellow cast members pass nearby.

All four movies in the Fab Four project, officially titled The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, are expected to arrive simultaneously on April 7, 2028.

 

 

 

 

 

Mendes will oversee each instalment, with every film focusing on a different member of the group. Official photographs showing the actors in character were unveiled earlier this year.

The productions will also make history as the first movies permitted to use music from The Beatles’ catalogue.

David Morrissey, Leanne Best, Bobby Schofield and James Norton were added to the cast near the end of last year. Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce will also appear as Linda McCartney, Yoko Ono, Pattie Boyd and Maureen Starkey, respectively.

Mescal, who portrays McCartney, previously said audiences would “benefit from knowing as little as possible” about the films before seeing them. He also revealed that he and the other actors were “pinching ourselves” over the opportunity.

“I think the endeavour is totally singular,” he said. “On a personal level, I’m so thrilled to be working on something at this scale, but also rooted in performance with Sam and great writers.”

Mescal continued: “But also just to be living and working in London and to have some sort of stability in what has been like a kind of mad six, seven years since Normal People came out.”

He has also confirmed that he will perform his own vocals and spent time with McCartney while preparing for the part.

Keoghan recently discussed the project as well, saying: “It’s going to be an event and you know and we knew that coming on board. What an exciting event to be part of, and no better filmmaker to do it than Sam, you know, so I’m having an absolute fucking brilliant time and elevating my craft and, you know, making brothers as well on set.”

Meanwhile, McCartney recently called Paul Mescal, the actor portraying him in the Beatles films, “very cute”.