A Beatles Film Is Coming

Sony’s four film The Beatles project reads less like a biopic and more like a cultural palimpsest history written, erased, and written over again. Four films, four lives, each orbiting the same flash of electricity that changed sound, youth, and longing forever. Under Sam Mendes’ direction, the band fractures into parallel myths: Harris Dickinson’s Lennon as sharp static, Paul Mescal’s…