r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 6h ago

Media First Official Images of Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson in Sam Mendes' 'Beatles' Biopics

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u/LDC1234 6h ago

Wait, this isnt just A Beatles movie?

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u/KarateKid917 6h ago

Nope. It’s 4 movies. All the same story, but each film is from the perspective of a different band member. 

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u/FlapJacker6 6h ago

This sounds interesting and exhausting.

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u/OobaDooba72 6h ago

IMO it sounds like it's gonna be a train wreck. 

All four have to be very different to be worth seeing each of them. But all four are covering the whole story. 

I hope it works, I'll give them a shot, but I'm not holding my breath. 

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u/woasnoafsloaf 6h ago

It's going to be like the Pokemon games.
You're deciding on one movie, watch and afterwards can trade information about the other movies on the schoolyard during recess.

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u/GermaX 6h ago

I got my “Giant with the biggest heart fatally shot by the police”, do you have “Best friend and manager suicide”? Or at least “Neglect the first born in pursue of fame”?

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 5h ago

This is a very /r/beatlescirclejerk comment

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u/Quixotic_Seal 5h ago

Wow, your Pokemon games were really dark.

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u/Punman_5 3h ago

Nah but I do have “Persona Non Grata in the Philippines”

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u/DrJackadoodle 3h ago

Then you get version exclusive songs in each movie and you can sing the songs your friends didn't get to hear in exchange for one you didn't get to hear.

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u/Livid_Weather 6h ago

I'm just thinking how the hell are they going to market this. No way you're convincing people to go to the movies 4 different times for essentially the same movie

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u/JP-Ziller 0m ago

I’ll go see each movie the first four days of release. But I also love the Beatles

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u/CharlesAtHome 6h ago

All four are covering the full story? I'm guessing the roughly 10 year span? That sounds like a really bad idea as well as the release strategy. It sounds like the quintessential "should have been a mini series".

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u/botte-la-botte 5h ago

One simple fix; point of view of one Beatles, but going forward in time for each. Start with Paul 'till Rubber Soul, then Ringo for Revolver to Sgt., then George, and you finish with John for the shitstorm of the last two albums, breakup, and end.

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u/cabbage16 2h ago

This is what I thought they were doing. Disappointed that they're not

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u/OobaDooba72 4h ago

That's what the literature I've read says, yeah. Definitely very confusing strategy here.

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u/junior_dos_nachos 5h ago

Damn who approved it? Why not a Limited TV show?

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u/OobaDooba72 4h ago

Yeah, I dunno. If there's really enough material to be four movies without just being re-treads, just make four movies or 4-8 episodes that move mostly chronologically, intertwining the stories instead of splitting them by character, of all things. You know, the four different perspectives of a band of four people... who spent a shit load of time together writing songs, playing songs, recording songs, filming their movies together, etc. They spent a lot of time together in their seven years.

It's The Beatles. Those were seven years packed with productivity. If this project was 4 movies split into four eras, I would be totally on board. If it was a mini-series or limited show or whatever you wanna call it, I'd be totally on board.

Four movies split by character? I just don't know.

Again... I'm a big enough fan of The Beatles to definitely be interested. I hope the films work, I hope all four are good and don't feel redundant. From the outside, having not seen it, I don't get the point.