Sam Mendes' Beatles quadrilogy (2027)

[bobloblaw]

Maybe each film really is just going to be from each band member's perspective. Like, exactly the same film, but shot from four different angles.

Like Bohemian Rhapsody would've been if the surviving members had had their way and they hadn't employed a hyperactive editor

[markburgle]

...and it's all less done-to-death than the story of the Fab Four themselves, which has already been covered in about 10000 movies...

They've all been shite though, tbf. The only good Beatle-adjacent movie/telly thing was Snodgrass.

I actually like this concept, there's potential in it but the execution will almost certainly be (again) shite

[curiousoranges]

Someone called David Batty made a quadrilogy of movies of all four Gospels in the mid 2010s, in Aramaic. He also directed a life of Ian Paisley, Hitler in Colour, and the Michael Caine/1960s doc My Generation. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

[Butchers Blind]

ABBA rashomon would be more entertaining.

[curiousoranges]

Someone called David Batty made a quadrilogy of movies of all four Gospels in the mid 2010s, in Aramaic. He also directed a life of Ian Paisley, Hitler in Colour, and the Michael Caine/1960s doc My Generation. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

Are The Life of Ian Paisley and Hitler in Colour part of the same quadrilogy?

[LordMorgan]

They've all been shite though, tbf. The only good Beatle-adjacent movie/telly thing was Snodgrass.

I actually like this concept, there's potential in it but the execution will almost certainly be (again) shite

Are you mad
It had Ian hart playing John Lennon again except he was on the dole
He left the Beatles and is bitter about their successs
That doesn't work at all

I liked backbeat but haven't seen it in years

This new film project sounds very ambitious
I'm all in

[madhair60]

ABBA rashomon would be more entertaining.

one of us is...

[SteveDave]

Are you mad
It had Ian hart playing John Lennon again except he was on the dole
He left the Beatles and is bitter about their successs
That doesn't work at all

I liked backbeat but haven't seen it in years

This new film project sounds very ambitious
I'm all in

You're too pure for this site

[Inspector Norse]

JOHN will be an edgy BW arthouse drama about the Berlin years

PAUL will be a sentimental romcom about their rise to success

GEORGE will be a mumblecore shakycam documentary about the psychedelic period and the making of the White Album

RINGO will be an animated film about a duck

[sevendaughters]

just cracking up at the idea of people giving up their Fridays to see ROTOGRAVURE: THE RINGO STARR STORY

[Goldentony]

TOTAL CUNT: THE RINGO STARR STORY

"he's actually underrated you know!"

[HANS ZIMMER TRAILER DRONE]

"it was the simplicity of his drumming that made the songs"

[DRONE]

"IM TELLIN YER TO FUCK OFF WITH PEACE AND LOVE AND LEAVE ME ALONE"

[piano only cover of the version of Photograph that got him sued by George]

[madhair60]

dear sam, thanks for the fine movie of yours truly. i watched it on me wall

[Blumf]

Not even the best film in The Beatles quadrilogy

[TheAssassin]

Big Country are more deserving of this

I only know one Big Country joke, and it is better said than written.  Mark Lamarr said it

Stuart Adamson was a Big Country member.  Well, do you remember?

[TheAssassin]

Is it really this easy to make money from Beatles fans?

Better ask Paul and Ringo how many hundreds of millions of Pounds they are worth.

[Goldentony]

mark lammar would be better off floating around space frozen in dogshit

[Famous Mortimer]

just cracking up at the idea of people giving up their Fridays to see ROTOGRAVURE: THE RINGO STARR STORY

The first five minutes is the Beatles stuff, but the last 2 hours is - in a move that could only be called "odd" - all about the making of "Ringo The 4th".

[Oosp]

If Kevin Eldon plays George Martin in all four movies, we have nothing to worry about

[Butchers Blind]

Can you still watch the other three if you miss the George one for instance?

[Captain Z]

Isn't it about time we had a female Beatle?

[Dr Rock]

Hope the Lennon one has early scenes featuring him beating his wife.

[TheAssassin]

Isn't it about time we had a female Beatle?

Like Yoko Ono.

[Mister Six]

Like Bohemian Rhapsody would've been if the surviving members had had their way and they hadn't employed a hyperactive editor

Mrs Six's theory is that the surviving band members all had some kind of contractual rule that they each needed to have exactly the same amount of screentime each, which required loads of mad cutting around whenever they were in the same scene, to ensure parity.

[SteveDave]

Out of the four Beatles films, I hear that John Lennon has already been shot.

[BlodwynPig]

I'm not deep in beatles lore so look forward to getting to know the band, the music through these

[Oosp]

Looking forward to a LOT of Thomas the Tank Engine content

[kalowski]

One Ringo to rule them all. Gear!

[Art Bear]

JOHN will be an edgy BW arthouse drama about the Berlin years

PAUL will be a sentimental romcom about their rise to success

GEORGE will be a mumblecore shakycam documentary about the psychedelic period and the making of the White Album

RINGO will be an animated film about a duck

I'd watch those.

[Gulftastic]

If they're a big hit, then there's almost no limit to possible future versions based on anyone who ever got dubbed 'the fifth Beatle'.

[idunnosomename]

Ringo is like The Hobbit in that they inexplicably take the one with the least material and stretch it out into a separate trilogy