An upcoming series of biopic films adapting The Beatles to the screen needs to capture the “essence” of the Fab Four, according to fans.
Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, and Barry Keogan are rumoured to portray John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr respectively. Anna Sawai has also been discussed as a possible star to portray Yoko Ono. Irrespective of casting calls and opinions on who should appear where, fans were clear with their expectations for the film and hope to see The Beatles’ humour and camaraderie adapted to the screen. A post to the r/Beatles subreddit saw users share their hopes for the upcoming films. One fan asked: “How do you feel about the rumoured cast of the upcoming Beatles biopics?”
Another replied: “I don’t care if they look like the guys, I just hope they’re able to capture the humor and camaraderie of the guys. They had excellent chemistry, obviously, and were really funny and charming. That’s why America and the rest of the world fell in love with them. That’s going to be tough to capture.
“Also, these guys are 28 at the youngest. So I wonder if the four movies will focus on the later years. Maybe each film covers each member’s perspective on the breakup?” Fans were split on what to expect from the film, with some hoping to avoid the conventional biopic structure.
One wrote: “I am just very frustrated with Hollywood at the moment. Everything is just reboots or prequels or sequels of stuff that has worked in the past, I want some risk and in regards to the Beatles movie(s), I want total and utter uggos to play the lads because for our time they really do not fit the beauty standard. I don’t want some six-pack, roided up actors to play them. I want unknown new actors that look like them, not the flavor of the season of Hollywood.”
Another user countered, saying actors who do not look like the artists have given exceptional performances in the past. One wrote: “Michael Fassbender or Jesse Eisenberg looked nothing like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, but they managed to capture the feeling of the character. World is already full of cheap-ass John Lennon lookalikes.”
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Others were expecting the worst from the upcoming series of films, with four films allegedly proposed as a route through each of the members’ lives. One user wrote: “I’m prepared to hate all of them.”
Another added: “I’m not really a big fan of any of the casting choices. They don’t really look like the ones they’re supposed to be playing at all to me. There are of course other things that are more important in a movie like this than looking exactly like the person you’re playing and from what I’ve seen from some of these actors, they seem to be very capable so maybe they’ll do a good job here too but I’m still skeptical overall.”
A third wrote: “It isn’t even the looks I care about (although the person who was in charge of casting for George’s part hopefully wears Coke bottle glasses and had left them at home). It’s the accent. You think a Boston accent is tough!, wait until you hear the Liverpudlian accent butchered. It is a very specific accent with lots of slang and sort of sing song rhymes.”
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