In April of 2028, the world will receive not just one Beatles biopic , but four of them.

The brainchild of Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event will roll out over the course of four separate weekends, with each film focusing on a different Beatle.

Both of the two remaining Beatles and the estates of the late ones have given the project the green light, though they are keeping a bit of distance.

"[Mendes] had a writer — very good writer, great reputation, and he wrote it great, but it had nothing to do with Maureen and I," Ringo Starr said to The New York Times earlier this year, referencing his marriage to his first wife, Maureen Starkey, and explaining that he'd been through the script for his own biopic "line by line" with Mendes.

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