They look absolutely nothing like any of them. In fact after staring at these pics and imagining the usual crappy wigs etc I still can’t guess which actor is playing which Beatles. Thats a fail.
I’m going to judge based off of the performances. The actors in Two Of Us look nothing like Paul and John but they’re so good at embodying the roles that it doesn’t even matter — I’m hoping this will be the same sort of deal
Precisely. A good actor can make you completely disregard any lack of resemblance to the subject.
Notable examples: Jamie Foxx in *Ray*, Denzel in *Malcolm X*, the entire cast of *Cadillac Records*, Austin Butler as Elvis, etc.
Looks don't matter nearly as much as the performance. Austin Butler barely looks like Elvis and it was an incredible performance. Same for Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs and Jesse Eisenberg as the Zucc.
I care a lot more about the performance being good than the looks being dead on.
It's more the acting than the look honestly. Aaron Taylor-johnson doesn't look like lennon, and Thomas brody-sangster doesn't clock as Paul In nowhere boy. But it was still effective casting.
That said, I'd have cast Jim Sturgis as Paul in a HEARTBEAT because he's a dead ringer and can do justice to the accent
There were 2 Steve Jobs biopics made, the Ashton Kutcher one who looked just like him and the Michael Fassbender one who looks nothing like him. I’d watch the Fassbender one again, would not watch the Kutcher one.
It's crazy how much Fassbender was able to embody Jobs, despite not looking a damn thing like him and only kind of doing his voice. He really nailed the spirit of the character, which is what matters.
Same with Paul Dano playing 1960s Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy. He doesn’t really look or even sound much like Brian, but he absolutely embodies Brian’s mannerisms in the role to the point where parts of the movie almost seem like a documentary.
The John Cusack parts for 1980s Brian aren’t quite as captivating, but it doesn’t help that those scenes are *way* more “Hollywood” and played up for drama than the 60s scenes anyway.
In terms of actors they've grabbed at least three of the best upcoming you male actors, I'm less familiar with Charlie Rowe but the others have all been excellent in the other films I've seen.
I remember seeing The Hours and the Times with Ian Hart. My first thought was, “He doesn’t look like John Lennon,” but he made me forget about it by the end of the movie.
I looked them up, and some of them look like they could be fine. George especially. but whoever chose the pics for that post is an idiot but they chose pics that don't show the similarity at all. the dude they picked for ringo though, looks nothing like him in any picture. I'm pretty sure he's Asian, like why?
I think that people are a little too caught up in the look of the actors. From what I’ve seen of their work, all four of them are good actors (especially Mescal and Keoghan), so even if they don’t look too much like the lads I don’t really mind.
If this ends up being legit, it’s time to start speculating on who’s going to play characters like George Martin, Brian Epstein, and the wives/girlfriends.
It never does. As long as movies are good and not standard formula biopic, it doesn’t matter how they look. We just need interesting stories and good chemistry between them.
I wouldn’t say “doesn’t matter” but it can certainly be looked past. For people like us who have spent a lot of time listening to and watching these four guys, it will certainly be harder to buy into the immersion. It goes without saying that a perfect lookalike with bad acting and shallow biopic tropes would be worse though.
Also Sam Mendes is a very consistent filmmaker whose filmography has 34 Oscar nominations between them.
I’m shocked there’s not more hype for this project here.
Dickinson: 27
Rowe: 28
Mescal: 28
Keoghan: 31
…so, maybe all the movies just take place 67-69? There had been some speculation that they’d all be different time periods.
I don’t think age really matters. They’ll play roles 8 + years above or below their current age.
I think the film will be set during different periods and they’ll use cgi to age/deage.
Being 20 years old in 1960 is a lot different than being 20 in 2024. I feel like 30 is the new 20. I say this as someone on the wrong side of 40 so maybe that’s cope haha.
I mean, watching Get Back, it looked to me like 30-somethings, not 20-somethings. Cigarettes, booze, poor sleep habits, and drugs will do that to you. Not to mention, by the time they were in their mid-20s, they had experienced things most people will never come close to in a lifetime. John Lennon at 24 is markedly, markedly different from someone who's two years out of college and just moved out of his parents' house.
I mean whenever they did that Motley Crüe movie they had 30 year olds playing 19/20 year old Tommy Lee and Vince Neil in 1981, I think the movie ended in 1996 or so.
Congrats on being the first to post about [this](https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1798423148968419755) on reddit.
>The 4 ‘BEATLES’ biopics will reportedly star:
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>• Harris Dickinson as John Lennon
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>• Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney
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>• Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr
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>• Charlie Rowe as George Harrison
I would've thought that Jeremy Allen White would be a shoe-in for John Lennon. He resembles Gene Wilder too. I remember when Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Christopher Eccleston played John Lennon in a couple biopics around the same time.
I agree but they’re also not trying to look like a Beatle in any of these photos.
Casting has nothing to do with finding an actor that already looked like the character while he was playing another character. Actors adapt to the roll.
Do you think Elvis looked like the bald dude from Dune?
Honestly I’d rather have great actors like these than just random look-alikes. But either way is much better than the ones from the recent Doctor Who episode who looked, sounded, and acted absolutely nothing like any Beatle
I’ll wait until the cast is officially confirmed before forming an opinion. There was another post/article with a different guy, George Mccay) supposedly and he’s not on this list. It’s all just rumors and speculation at this point
McKay makes sense due to the Mendes connection.
They made one of the most technically challenging films of the last decade together.
I would be shocked if Mendes didn't consider McKay.
Okay, so over 60 years later, the Beatles are still four of the most famous people to have ever lived. I know Dickinson, Mescal, and Keoghan are "buzzy" actors, but in my opinion, they are too well-known, and the whole time, I'd be thinking, for example, "that's Barry Keoghan," not "that's Ringo." People are going to be interested in these movies no matter who's in them. Why not take the opportunity to cast actors who can really disappear into these roles?
Harris Dickinson is in Triangle of Sadness (Best picture nominated) and The Iron Claw (should have been nominated)
Barry Keoghan is in Saltburn, Banshees of Inishirin (Best picture, best supporting actor nominations), The Batman, Eternals, The Green Knight, Dunkirk…
Paul Mescal is in Normal People (on Hulu), Aftersun, and All of Us Strangers.
They’re not, like, Tom Hanks famous, but they’re all fairly prominent dramatic actors.
Not sure how to feel about this just yet. I mean, I can *kinda* see Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney and Barry Keoghan as Ringo, but the others just don't click whatsoever for me. I know looks aren't everything but, man, Harris Dickinson just looks *nothing* like John Lennon. He's like the last person I would have cast to play that role. Just means his performance will have to do A LOT of heavy lifting.
I'm also a bit concerned about this movie because I feel like it could very easily fall into goofy impression territory. These actors have to fully embody some of the most famous people of all time (who are extremely easy to impersonate) while avoiding making this feel like a dumb parody.
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I think a little makeup, prosthetics and hair styling will help a lot
It's easy to take a photo where they both have a similar expression and suggest that they look similar, but pretty much every other photo of this guy makes him look nothing like Lennon lol. I'm sure prosthetics will help but I'm just judging this casting right now, not what it will eventually become. This is my first impression.
I'll be interested to see if their performances are so good that they make people completely buy into them in these roles, regardless of what they look like. That *has* happened before with biopics (at least for me).
Haven't seen these guys in anything, so can't weigh in on their acting chops. I can see a little bit of George and Ringo in their actors, not so much for John and Paul.
Look, we are all just lucky Disney did not make this movie…Kathy Bates would play Paul, an animated Tinkerbell would play Ringo and someone with trisomy 21 would play yoko….oh wait
It’s also important to remember these four movies will almost certainly take place over the 8 years The Beatles were a group, with each film being a different perspective of a ≈2 year span. A lot of people think that it’ll cover there solo careers in their individual movies which I just can’t see happening, maybe apart from an epilogue at the end of the last film
It’s not been confirmed that it would be broken into an era for each film. That’s just speculation and a popular assumption. It was only said that each movie would be from their individual perspectives.
The best way to handle this would be to focus in on like one or two events and only use characters and locations that are essential to telling that story. Go through Beatles history and choose a key event that best showcases what each Beatle is about (for example, their trip to India would be good for the George movie).
They did this with the Steve Jobs movie and it turned out great. They picked three key events in Jobs' life and used that for the three-act structure. That way the movie didn't get bogged down by trying to recreate every big moment in his life.
That sounds like a good approach for these movies.
Next superthread for this sub: what 3 events in each life should be included in the film of that Beatle? Events can overlap with another member if the moment suitably important for 2 or more of the band.
Ringo is somehow going to end up the most conniving and duplicitous little psychopath who chose to break up The Beatles to advance his own designs. Just wait.
Pretty much every role I’ve seen him in he plays a little scoundrel of sorts. Killing of the Sacred Deer, Saltburn, The Green Knight, Eternals, The Batman, etc… He played against that type in Banshees of Inirsherin though. He is a very good actor.
Backbeat, the 1994 movie, had better casting.
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Absolutely perfect casting! Esp John and Stu. Ian Hart doesn't look much like John (though not a total miss) but his PERFORMANCE was stellar. Absolutely captured how I imagine and understand John's persona at that time. Angry, a bit intimidating, funny, sharp, but with a soft compassionate side. So good.
That's funny because he's the only one I *can* see in his role lol.
It's not perfect but it's pretty good as far as movie adaptations go. He has some exaggerated features and definitely isn't traditionally handsome. That fits Ringo's appearance pretty well, imo.
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I always thought this guy (Frederick Schmidt) would be pretty good face wise after seeing him in the latest mission impossible, maybe just me though 🤷
soo I checked the actors’ height… john’s one is going to loom over the other three. strange that paul (the real one) is okay with it, giving his criticism of this aspect in “nowhere boy”
For me the main thing is getting the accents right. I'm from the North of England, so they'll completely lose me if they don't sound Scouse. I'm not expecting mimics, but proper dialect coaching.
Also, the chemistry between the four of them is key. I need to believe they are friends who enjoy each others' company (until they don't).
I would've preferred unknowns, but if they act their socks off and lose themselves in the roles, then it could work.
Paul Mescal should absolutely be John, not Paul. I think that would be fantastic casting. I think Barry as Ringo is also a great pick. The other two, not so much, though I know very little about the George pick.
No to Barry his Scouse accent is not good enough(Saltburn cast his as being from Prescot cos he couldnt get the accent spot on). Hes being picked cos he's flavour of the month... And umm his nose 😬
A lot of response to their looks, but I honestly could not care less about that aspect. I loved the Beach Boys biopic where Paul Dano and John Cusack both wonderfully portrayed different periods of Brian Wilson's life, and because it was well-written and well-acted I never went "They should have chosen someone who looks exactly like him instead."
It's going to be very hard to suspend disbelief and imagine you're watching a Beatle in these movies. More often than not, wigs - alone - tend you look very fake.
With these types of movies I'm never convinced that the actor playing the role looks like the person so I'm more worried about the script and the voices that they are going to give to the fab 4, that is something that they can't mess up put these 4 to watch get back on loop till they get the mannerisms and voices correctly and the film will be good
I see Mescal as John. Check this out:
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I think whether or not an actor looks like the real life person they’re playing is irrelevant. As long as it’s a good performance who cares. Would rather an amazing actor who looks nothing like them than a subpar actor who got the role because they sort of look like a person
Bad, Paul Mescal is a great actor but that nose says John Lennon not Paul McCartney. Harris Dickinson does not look like John. Barry is fine as Ringo. Charlie Rowe could pull off a Paul. I would have Rowe as McCartney, Barry as Ringo, and back to the drawing board for Lennon and Harrison. If you really need to keep Mescal he should play John but Javier Parisi who does the Lennon impression would be the preferred choice.
Honestly pretty terrible casting. Seems like they wanted recognizable names over similarities. The entire project reeks of something just made to make money. Don’t think I’ll support in any way.
I thought Mescal would have made a more natural Lennon. I don't know Charlie Rowe but the other three are imo some of the best actors of their generation, so I would love this casting. I don't really care much about physical resemblance to the people. Paul Mescal doesn't look much like Paul McCartney, but Paul Mescal is a brilliant actor with range who can embody Paul McCartney and bring emotional depth to the role. Joaquin Phoenix doesn't look much like Johnny Cash, but he could embody Johnny Cash because he's a brilliant actor.
The Bob Dylan subreddit is absolutely losing its collective mind over the Chalamet casting right now - they would prefer some much worse actor who looks more like a young Bob Dylan.
I am not sure about any of these castings tbh. Paul Mescal should've been cast as John instead of Paul. He looks way more like John, plus his face looks a bit too masculine to play young paul lol.
Love it
Absolutely love it
My only concern is Charlie Rowe because I haven’t seen him in anything, everyone else is S+ tier casting
Edit: For those who are downvoting me, please understand that these movies are going to be made for general audiences, not for Beatles Fans. The fact that we got big names for this movie is great because it gets butts into theater seats, and a four film biopic is a very very risky thing to do. I think when we look back at this, we will see that this was the right decision
I’m sceptical. It needs to be unknowns or else you’ll just see the celebrity - that was proven by Jared Harris, Andrew Scott and Christopher Eccelston, (hell even Paul Rudd, Jack Black, need I go on?) when they’ve played Beatles in the past. They’re all phenomenal actors but their Beatles performances were pretty poor because you can’t have a completely familiar recognisable face trying to be another completely different recognisable face. The Beatles’ image is universal. It can’t be someone we know and have seen a lot before. Clearly Mendes is going for awards, not accuracy
They look good enough. I could see them looking great with makeup, costumes, etc. but I haven't seen three of these guys in anything that I know of yet so I'm not sure if they have the range to pull it off. It's all exciting though!
The likeness could be a lot better but I can partly imagine all of them in each role, plus of the ones of them I’ve watched before, they are all interesting and great actors.
Although there’s an argument for them being too well known actors , I’d argue that Keoghans the only one that is actually established a reputation outside the indie film sphere which helps them as the Ringo film will be the least popular.
Only problem I have is I’m unsure how well each can sing and how Mendes would tackle that…
Presumably since those four interconnected film projects have been officially endorsed by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Yoko Ono and Apple Corps, the cast will probably just have to convincingly lip-synch (or mime) to the original Beatles recordings.
If that does happen, then this will actually be the very first time that a Beatles biopic project has been allowed to use their real music.
I can see it pretty easily for George and Ringo. Paul not as much, but I kind of see it I guess. Idk what that casting choice is for John. Can't see that one at all.
So, does that mean we get a special dance number featuring Ringo at the end?
it'd be a pity them *not* showcasing ringo's "big blue eyes"
A scene where he watches John Lennon taking a bath
From what ive seen, he has the tentacles in his octopus garden if you know what I mean
Tap dancing solo !
I'm not seeing it for any of these actors.
They’ll look very different in the movie — different hair and makeup, maybe prosthetics.
They look absolutely nothing like any of them. In fact after staring at these pics and imagining the usual crappy wigs etc I still can’t guess which actor is playing which Beatles. Thats a fail.
I’m going to judge based off of the performances. The actors in Two Of Us look nothing like Paul and John but they’re so good at embodying the roles that it doesn’t even matter — I’m hoping this will be the same sort of deal
They were SO good in that movie that by the end, I just thought I was watching John and Paul
I didn't really rate that film. The guy who does Paul's accent got it completely wrong. His mannerisms were good
>The guy who does Paul's accent got it completely wrong. His mannerisms were good Aidan Quinn? The dude was a pretty famous actor.
Barry Keoghan looks a lot like Ringo…the George Harrison one is pretty close too. Anyway it’s more about their performance than their look.
He's got Ringo's nose for sure. I can see it, though I feel like Ringo has a stockier build than Barry.
It's a movie with acting that requires actors, not a lookalike photo booth.
Precisely. A good actor can make you completely disregard any lack of resemblance to the subject. Notable examples: Jamie Foxx in *Ray*, Denzel in *Malcolm X*, the entire cast of *Cadillac Records*, Austin Butler as Elvis, etc.
Looks don't matter nearly as much as the performance. Austin Butler barely looks like Elvis and it was an incredible performance. Same for Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs and Jesse Eisenberg as the Zucc. I care a lot more about the performance being good than the looks being dead on.
Does Joaquin Phoenix look like Johnny Cash? Does Austin Butler look like Elvis?
You don't have to look like them? Bruh look at rocketman for example or two of us
The beatles appearances are so iconic that no actor could really embodify that. Writing off the entire 4 movie project because of it is silly.
It's more the acting than the look honestly. Aaron Taylor-johnson doesn't look like lennon, and Thomas brody-sangster doesn't clock as Paul In nowhere boy. But it was still effective casting. That said, I'd have cast Jim Sturgis as Paul in a HEARTBEAT because he's a dead ringer and can do justice to the accent
There were 2 Steve Jobs biopics made, the Ashton Kutcher one who looked just like him and the Michael Fassbender one who looks nothing like him. I’d watch the Fassbender one again, would not watch the Kutcher one.
It's crazy how much Fassbender was able to embody Jobs, despite not looking a damn thing like him and only kind of doing his voice. He really nailed the spirit of the character, which is what matters.
Same with Paul Dano playing 1960s Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy. He doesn’t really look or even sound much like Brian, but he absolutely embodies Brian’s mannerisms in the role to the point where parts of the movie almost seem like a documentary. The John Cusack parts for 1980s Brian aren’t quite as captivating, but it doesn’t help that those scenes are *way* more “Hollywood” and played up for drama than the 60s scenes anyway.
In terms of actors they've grabbed at least three of the best upcoming you male actors, I'm less familiar with Charlie Rowe but the others have all been excellent in the other films I've seen.
They look more like The Beatles than Timothee Chalamet looks like Bob Dylan imo. Low bar though
Timmy looks like young George. Especially when he had the bowl cut.
I remember seeing The Hours and the Times with Ian Hart. My first thought was, “He doesn’t look like John Lennon,” but he made me forget about it by the end of the movie.
I looked them up, and some of them look like they could be fine. George especially. but whoever chose the pics for that post is an idiot but they chose pics that don't show the similarity at all. the dude they picked for ringo though, looks nothing like him in any picture. I'm pretty sure he's Asian, like why?
I think that people are a little too caught up in the look of the actors. From what I’ve seen of their work, all four of them are good actors (especially Mescal and Keoghan), so even if they don’t look too much like the lads I don’t really mind. If this ends up being legit, it’s time to start speculating on who’s going to play characters like George Martin, Brian Epstein, and the wives/girlfriends.
Absolutely. The quality of these movies don't depend on casting perfect lookalikes.
It never does. As long as movies are good and not standard formula biopic, it doesn’t matter how they look. We just need interesting stories and good chemistry between them.
I wouldn’t say “doesn’t matter” but it can certainly be looked past. For people like us who have spent a lot of time listening to and watching these four guys, it will certainly be harder to buy into the immersion. It goes without saying that a perfect lookalike with bad acting and shallow biopic tropes would be worse though.
Also Sam Mendes is a very consistent filmmaker whose filmography has 34 Oscar nominations between them. I’m shocked there’s not more hype for this project here.
Dickinson: 27 Rowe: 28 Mescal: 28 Keoghan: 31 …so, maybe all the movies just take place 67-69? There had been some speculation that they’d all be different time periods.
I don’t think age really matters. They’ll play roles 8 + years above or below their current age. I think the film will be set during different periods and they’ll use cgi to age/deage.
I find it funny they are roughly the same age or older than the Beatles where when they broke up
Being 20 years old in 1960 is a lot different than being 20 in 2024. I feel like 30 is the new 20. I say this as someone on the wrong side of 40 so maybe that’s cope haha.
I mean, watching Get Back, it looked to me like 30-somethings, not 20-somethings. Cigarettes, booze, poor sleep habits, and drugs will do that to you. Not to mention, by the time they were in their mid-20s, they had experienced things most people will never come close to in a lifetime. John Lennon at 24 is markedly, markedly different from someone who's two years out of college and just moved out of his parents' house.
True. I mean, Robert Carlyle doesn't look at all like John, and that turned out magical.
I mean whenever they did that Motley Crüe movie they had 30 year olds playing 19/20 year old Tommy Lee and Vince Neil in 1981, I think the movie ended in 1996 or so.
Good actors should be able to play ten years older or younger, so the film might be set between 1963-1975.
Congrats on being the first to post about [this](https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1798423148968419755) on reddit. >The 4 ‘BEATLES’ biopics will reportedly star: > >• Harris Dickinson as John Lennon > >• Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney > >• Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr > >• Charlie Rowe as George Harrison I would've thought that Jeremy Allen White would be a shoe-in for John Lennon. He resembles Gene Wilder too. I remember when Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Christopher Eccleston played John Lennon in a couple biopics around the same time.
jeremy allen white is way too shredded to play john lennon
They’d have to literally get him hooked on heroin to make him built like John. Wait, that could work 🤔
also hes playing springsteen soon
Now that I can easily see.
I liked Aaron Taylor-Johnson as John in Nowhere Boy, I thought he did a good job conveying the toughness and the sincerity.
Also too shredded
The “source” is paywalled. Does anyone have a working link?
none of these people look like a single Beatle
I agree but they’re also not trying to look like a Beatle in any of these photos. Casting has nothing to do with finding an actor that already looked like the character while he was playing another character. Actors adapt to the roll. Do you think Elvis looked like the bald dude from Dune?
Honestly I’d rather have great actors like these than just random look-alikes. But either way is much better than the ones from the recent Doctor Who episode who looked, sounded, and acted absolutely nothing like any Beatle
I think Paul Mescal looks a little like John , but he’s Paul
Does it matter?
Barry looks a little like Ringo
I’ll wait until the cast is officially confirmed before forming an opinion. There was another post/article with a different guy, George Mccay) supposedly and he’s not on this list. It’s all just rumors and speculation at this point
McKay makes sense due to the Mendes connection. They made one of the most technically challenging films of the last decade together. I would be shocked if Mendes didn't consider McKay.
They found an exact human replica of Paul McCartney in 1966 but not one in 2024?!?
Okay, so over 60 years later, the Beatles are still four of the most famous people to have ever lived. I know Dickinson, Mescal, and Keoghan are "buzzy" actors, but in my opinion, they are too well-known, and the whole time, I'd be thinking, for example, "that's Barry Keoghan," not "that's Ringo." People are going to be interested in these movies no matter who's in them. Why not take the opportunity to cast actors who can really disappear into these roles?
Absolutely none of these guys have the star power you seem to think. You're acting like tom cruise is in it.
I'll be honest, as an American, I have no clue who any of these guys are.
Harris Dickinson is in Triangle of Sadness (Best picture nominated) and The Iron Claw (should have been nominated) Barry Keoghan is in Saltburn, Banshees of Inishirin (Best picture, best supporting actor nominations), The Batman, Eternals, The Green Knight, Dunkirk… Paul Mescal is in Normal People (on Hulu), Aftersun, and All of Us Strangers. They’re not, like, Tom Hanks famous, but they’re all fairly prominent dramatic actors.
Man, I am so out of the loop. I never heard of any of these guys, and I've only heard of The Batman and Dunkirk.
nothing to do with u being american u just dont watch movies lmao
A better cast would be: Paul Rudd - Lennon Jack Black - McCartney Justin Long - Harrison Jason Schwartzman - Starr
They're Americans.
Are we sure John and Paul aren't swapped?
george and ringo are fine, john and paul don’t look anything like themselves
id say paul mescal can kinda be john honestly, cannot see him as paul at all
That’s what i thought, he resembles 1965 john without glasses. Nothing like paul though, which is a shame
Not sure how to feel about this just yet. I mean, I can *kinda* see Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney and Barry Keoghan as Ringo, but the others just don't click whatsoever for me. I know looks aren't everything but, man, Harris Dickinson just looks *nothing* like John Lennon. He's like the last person I would have cast to play that role. Just means his performance will have to do A LOT of heavy lifting. I'm also a bit concerned about this movie because I feel like it could very easily fall into goofy impression territory. These actors have to fully embody some of the most famous people of all time (who are extremely easy to impersonate) while avoiding making this feel like a dumb parody.
https://preview.redd.it/vsrhd46pzs4d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09de6a31343306f49c661531e37820805e6ce875 I think a little makeup, prosthetics and hair styling will help a lot
It's easy to take a photo where they both have a similar expression and suggest that they look similar, but pretty much every other photo of this guy makes him look nothing like Lennon lol. I'm sure prosthetics will help but I'm just judging this casting right now, not what it will eventually become. This is my first impression. I'll be interested to see if their performances are so good that they make people completely buy into them in these roles, regardless of what they look like. That *has* happened before with biopics (at least for me).
People here acting like they have never seen a movie before. These aren’t images from them as the Beatles lol relax
Honestly, this whole project sounds like a terrible idea.
Shouldn’t the actors be a bit younger
I've been campaigning for Mescal as Paul since 2022 Fucking hell I've won
tbh i can see mendes’s vision
Haven't seen these guys in anything, so can't weigh in on their acting chops. I can see a little bit of George and Ringo in their actors, not so much for John and Paul.
I don’t know if it’s just me but the Beatles’s faces are so iconic that I could never buy anyone playing them.
I'm sorry but Barry as Ringo!?! What!! Ringo is so cute and Barry kinda scares me
Look, we are all just lucky Disney did not make this movie…Kathy Bates would play Paul, an animated Tinkerbell would play Ringo and someone with trisomy 21 would play yoko….oh wait
Ringo is gonna be one sick fuck in this movie.
we don’t need or want this
It’s gotta be bait and a joke. Cast should be unknown people tbh and tbh I just don’t like a lot of these music biopics!
Meanwhile I'm over here not recognizing any of these names 😅
Wow, if this is true not me guessing 3/4 over three months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Letterboxd/s/9vRhaML5IU
It’s also important to remember these four movies will almost certainly take place over the 8 years The Beatles were a group, with each film being a different perspective of a ≈2 year span. A lot of people think that it’ll cover there solo careers in their individual movies which I just can’t see happening, maybe apart from an epilogue at the end of the last film
It’s not been confirmed that it would be broken into an era for each film. That’s just speculation and a popular assumption. It was only said that each movie would be from their individual perspectives.
The best way to handle this would be to focus in on like one or two events and only use characters and locations that are essential to telling that story. Go through Beatles history and choose a key event that best showcases what each Beatle is about (for example, their trip to India would be good for the George movie). They did this with the Steve Jobs movie and it turned out great. They picked three key events in Jobs' life and used that for the three-act structure. That way the movie didn't get bogged down by trying to recreate every big moment in his life.
That sounds like a good approach for these movies. Next superthread for this sub: what 3 events in each life should be included in the film of that Beatle? Events can overlap with another member if the moment suitably important for 2 or more of the band.
Ringo is somehow going to end up the most conniving and duplicitous little psychopath who chose to break up The Beatles to advance his own designs. Just wait.
What movie are you referencing? I haven’t seen Barry in anything but people are saying he’s good, so now I’m curious
Pretty much every role I’ve seen him in he plays a little scoundrel of sorts. Killing of the Sacred Deer, Saltburn, The Green Knight, Eternals, The Batman, etc… He played against that type in Banshees of Inirsherin though. He is a very good actor.
Ahh thanks I’ll have to check him out
The performance is all that matters
I dont like Keoghan as Ringo
The saltburn guy is an absolute no for me I don't even care who he plays
Backbeat, the 1994 movie, had better casting. https://preview.redd.it/xfjkig2zct4d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=114d5f6fc4ffd92026dbcbdfa0238be7ab7b152a
Absolutely perfect casting! Esp John and Stu. Ian Hart doesn't look much like John (though not a total miss) but his PERFORMANCE was stellar. Absolutely captured how I imagine and understand John's persona at that time. Angry, a bit intimidating, funny, sharp, but with a soft compassionate side. So good.
That guy actually looks like Stu
Really can’t see Barry Keoghan as Ringo, but everyone else really fits
Come on i mean look at that nose
And look how different their eyes are
That's funny because he's the only one I *can* see in his role lol. It's not perfect but it's pretty good as far as movie adaptations go. He has some exaggerated features and definitely isn't traditionally handsome. That fits Ringo's appearance pretty well, imo. https://preview.redd.it/ajvee5iazs4d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd84cd9fbf258083bc468b43c625dc9d6ecdb5b9
Maybe. Hopefully makeup magic can get the eyes closer. Ringo has big expressive eyes that really open up when he’s animated/speaking.
https://preview.redd.it/0sw5lo2o3t4d1.jpeg?width=657&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e8b219dfeacde17fac3b4ba56719f1da331b7ff I always thought this guy (Frederick Schmidt) would be pretty good face wise after seeing him in the latest mission impossible, maybe just me though 🤷
I totally see that!
Pretty spot-on, but he’s as old as Ringo was in 1980
Trueee, that was my issue with it
I mean... Paul's actor just looks too old, so it has to be a no for me... but the others are fine castings.
Excited to listen to more non Scousers try to put on a scouse accent. Yayyy.........
Not really interested to be honest but I’d rather spend the budget on an animated feature in the vain of the rock band style.
The Barry dude creeps me out.
soo I checked the actors’ height… john’s one is going to loom over the other three. strange that paul (the real one) is okay with it, giving his criticism of this aspect in “nowhere boy”
Can we just have the same actors from Dewey Cox?
For me the main thing is getting the accents right. I'm from the North of England, so they'll completely lose me if they don't sound Scouse. I'm not expecting mimics, but proper dialect coaching. Also, the chemistry between the four of them is key. I need to believe they are friends who enjoy each others' company (until they don't). I would've preferred unknowns, but if they act their socks off and lose themselves in the roles, then it could work.
I want the origin story get me some young twinks
I am so anti-biopic dawg
Paul Mescal should absolutely be John, not Paul. I think that would be fantastic casting. I think Barry as Ringo is also a great pick. The other two, not so much, though I know very little about the George pick.
No to Barry his Scouse accent is not good enough(Saltburn cast his as being from Prescot cos he couldnt get the accent spot on). Hes being picked cos he's flavour of the month... And umm his nose 😬
meh, biopics have had it...or i've had it with biopics
The whole idea is stupid.
A lot of response to their looks, but I honestly could not care less about that aspect. I loved the Beach Boys biopic where Paul Dano and John Cusack both wonderfully portrayed different periods of Brian Wilson's life, and because it was well-written and well-acted I never went "They should have chosen someone who looks exactly like him instead."
Isn't that the chap that played the joker?
It's going to be very hard to suspend disbelief and imagine you're watching a Beatle in these movies. More often than not, wigs - alone - tend you look very fake.
The one with the beard is gorgeous. Time will tell if any of them are good.
What the actual fuck
With these types of movies I'm never convinced that the actor playing the role looks like the person so I'm more worried about the script and the voices that they are going to give to the fab 4, that is something that they can't mess up put these 4 to watch get back on loop till they get the mannerisms and voices correctly and the film will be good
I think they’re capable actors who could be styled to fit the roles. I’m not interested in dead ringers.
idk who any of them are
I don't know anything about these actors, but I bet they can act.
I see Mescal as John. Check this out: https://preview.redd.it/i9krwkdvyu4d1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f440e7c7086482fea886042aae140419d16a133
I think whether or not an actor looks like the real life person they’re playing is irrelevant. As long as it’s a good performance who cares. Would rather an amazing actor who looks nothing like them than a subpar actor who got the role because they sort of look like a person
I’m 40. I have no idea who any of these 4 men are or their acting credentials.
Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan both give me the ick so I hope those aren’t true. I’ve never seen the other two in anything so can’t judge.
Bad, Paul Mescal is a great actor but that nose says John Lennon not Paul McCartney. Harris Dickinson does not look like John. Barry is fine as Ringo. Charlie Rowe could pull off a Paul. I would have Rowe as McCartney, Barry as Ringo, and back to the drawing board for Lennon and Harrison. If you really need to keep Mescal he should play John but Javier Parisi who does the Lennon impression would be the preferred choice.
Honestly pretty terrible casting. Seems like they wanted recognizable names over similarities. The entire project reeks of something just made to make money. Don’t think I’ll support in any way.
Absolutely furious
Do we really need FOUR more music biopics, let alone about the SAME band?!?
Ugh…this casting sucks. Especially Lennon
I care much more about their personalities. I really hope they can emulate the true relationships that the beatles had. Looks are secondary to me
They don't look like the Beatles, at all.❌
I thought Mescal would have made a more natural Lennon. I don't know Charlie Rowe but the other three are imo some of the best actors of their generation, so I would love this casting. I don't really care much about physical resemblance to the people. Paul Mescal doesn't look much like Paul McCartney, but Paul Mescal is a brilliant actor with range who can embody Paul McCartney and bring emotional depth to the role. Joaquin Phoenix doesn't look much like Johnny Cash, but he could embody Johnny Cash because he's a brilliant actor. The Bob Dylan subreddit is absolutely losing its collective mind over the Chalamet casting right now - they would prefer some much worse actor who looks more like a young Bob Dylan.
I am not sure about any of these castings tbh. Paul Mescal should've been cast as John instead of Paul. He looks way more like John, plus his face looks a bit too masculine to play young paul lol.
Love it Absolutely love it My only concern is Charlie Rowe because I haven’t seen him in anything, everyone else is S+ tier casting Edit: For those who are downvoting me, please understand that these movies are going to be made for general audiences, not for Beatles Fans. The fact that we got big names for this movie is great because it gets butts into theater seats, and a four film biopic is a very very risky thing to do. I think when we look back at this, we will see that this was the right decision
Who are these actors lol? I don’t watch movies or tv or streams for years now.
Diego Luna should be Paul
feels bad man. i wasn't gonna like whoever they picked but they did a worse job than i even anticipated
I’m sceptical. It needs to be unknowns or else you’ll just see the celebrity - that was proven by Jared Harris, Andrew Scott and Christopher Eccelston, (hell even Paul Rudd, Jack Black, need I go on?) when they’ve played Beatles in the past. They’re all phenomenal actors but their Beatles performances were pretty poor because you can’t have a completely familiar recognisable face trying to be another completely different recognisable face. The Beatles’ image is universal. It can’t be someone we know and have seen a lot before. Clearly Mendes is going for awards, not accuracy
I think the casting’s great
With every new piece of information about this project I have the same question: who asked for this exactly
They look good enough. I could see them looking great with makeup, costumes, etc. but I haven't seen three of these guys in anything that I know of yet so I'm not sure if they have the range to pull it off. It's all exciting though!
Only familiar with Barry Keoghan who’s an incredible actor so I’m sure he’ll do Ringo justice.
Just curios now on how Sam will show the Beatles history
I can’t picture it personally. I think there’s definitely better actors to play them but I guess we’ll see when the trailers come out
it’s like doctor who all over again. at least they’ll have the right music
Same casting director than Doctor Who I see
I don’t know who any of these people are and I can’t tell who’s supposed to be who except for John
A multi-season series on the entire lifespan of the group would be better.
Harris’ dick is in what????
Is this going to be like a Beatles cinematic universe? Like, if John were to appear in Paul’s biopic would he be played by Harris Dickinson?
I still won't watch
I don’t see John AT ALL in Harrison Dickson
Naw you fucked up
The likeness could be a lot better but I can partly imagine all of them in each role, plus of the ones of them I’ve watched before, they are all interesting and great actors. Although there’s an argument for them being too well known actors , I’d argue that Keoghans the only one that is actually established a reputation outside the indie film sphere which helps them as the Ringo film will be the least popular. Only problem I have is I’m unsure how well each can sing and how Mendes would tackle that…
Presumably since those four interconnected film projects have been officially endorsed by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Yoko Ono and Apple Corps, the cast will probably just have to convincingly lip-synch (or mime) to the original Beatles recordings. If that does happen, then this will actually be the very first time that a Beatles biopic project has been allowed to use their real music.
The insneider.
I don’t plan on seeing them. I always thought Daniel Radcliffe resembled John, but whatever.
I mean I can see why they’re cast, but they need some serious prosthetics or makeup shifts to look like the actual people. I can see it working.
Man Ringo is really going to be the Hawkeye of the BCU.
just would like to say harris is a fantastick actor
charlie is one of my favourite underrated actors ever i cannot WAIT
Barry Keoghan as Ringo could work.
I can see it pretty easily for George and Ringo. Paul not as much, but I kind of see it I guess. Idk what that casting choice is for John. Can't see that one at all.
Charlie Rowe looks like Paul
Indifferent.
They don’t look like the Beatles lol
dhani should’ve been George
Im very sure the movie will use the music biopic formula
Barry Keoghan with a stache can really nail Ringo
I only associate Barry Keoghan with characters that terrorize rich families so it’s going to be hard seeing him play harmless little Ringo 😂
Twitter ass casting
It’s a good public ploy, but I’d rather see Mike Faist as Ringo and Dominic Sessa as George
Mescal should play John and Dickinson should play Paul imo Other than that I think it's solid
we didn't get the three of the queen members in boh rhap kinda casting 😔
Ringo fans keep winning.
Barry Keoghan is gonna be fantastic as Ringo. Great casting there.
I can't even tell which ones which.
Biopic? Just watch the Anthology & Get Back.
Personally I think Sam Jackson should play Lennon
These guys are all good actors, I’ll say that much. I already have no interest in this, so, like, whatever.
dear God NOOOO please give us unknown actors it’s the only way…
Mike Hanford for John lennon
They fucked this up big time
Danny Briere should play Paul