Paul Mescal is in the midst of a promising awards marketing campaign for his newest film, Chloé Zhao’s heartbreaking Hamnet, which simply gained the award for Best Drama Film at the 2026 Golden Globes. His downtime, although, is at a premium due to his position as Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’s quartet of Beatles biopics, that are set to be launched in 2028. Speaking to Variety about The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, Mescal was reluctant to say a lot about changing into one of many Fab 4, saying that “I don’t need to get into the Beatles factor, not coyly, however often because I feel the world hopefully will profit from realizing as little as attainable going into it.”
Other than hoping that individuals will have the ability to benefit from the story of the Beatles with out realizing something concerning the Beatles (a tricky job, when you think about just how many Beatles documentaries exist), Mescal did affirm that manufacturing is ongoing: “We’re some time away from ending. That’s my job for all of 2026.”
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Mescal additionally informed Selection that he and co-stars Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn, and Barry Keoghan are “pinching ourselves” over what he considers a “completely singular” endeavor, including that “on a private stage, I’m so thrilled to be engaged on one thing at this scale, but additionally rooted in efficiency with Sam and nice writers.” The solid for the biopics additionally consists of Saoirse Ronan, James Norton, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wooden, Harry Lloyd, David Morrissey, Leanne Finest, Bobby Schofield, Daniel Hoffmann-Gill, Arthur Darvill, and Adam Pally.
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Mescal can also be at the moment concerned with Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the musical Merrily We Roll Alongside, which is being filmed over the course of 20 years with co-stars Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein. “The administrators that I’m going to be working with this 12 months — Sam Mendes and Richard Linklater — I’m like, I’m completely happy. A minimum of I’ll be engaged on one factor for the following 20 years,” Mescal stated. In the meantime, the Beatles biopics are set to be launched in theaters in April 2028.
