Irish actors Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan and British stars Harris Dickinson and Joseph Quinn are set to portray The Beatles in four upcoming films.
Each of the movies will showcase one of the members of The Fab Four - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr - and will be directed by the British filmmaker Sam Mendes.
They are expected to be released in April 2028.
Here, we take a closer look at the actors:
Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney)
The Co Kildare actor, 29, shot to stardom during the pandemic for his role as love interest Connell Waldron in the BBC miniseries Normal People, based on the novel of the same name by the Irish author Sally Rooney.
Mescal has continued to mark out his place within the industry following his starring role in the 2022 coming-of-age film Aftersun. His performance as a father struggling with his mental health while on holiday with his daughter earned him Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Actor.
Watch: Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott talk to Audrey Donohue about All of Us Strangers.
Mescal's work in the romantic fantasy All of Us Strangers alongside fellow Irish actor Andrew Scott garnered him further recognition and a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Performance.
He also won an Olivier Award for a stage adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. The Maynooth man then went on to star in Gladiator II, directed by Ridley Scott, as an arena fighter who tries to bring down two maniacal emperors.
Watch: Paul Mescal talks to Alan Corr about Gladiator II.
He plays Lucilla's (Connie Nielsen) grown-up son from the first movie, which starred Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius, who ends up in slavery after the murder of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Barry Keoghan (Ringo Starr)
The one-time Love/Hate star received praise for his roles in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Banshees of Inisherin, both opposite Colin Farrell, and starred in the Marvel film Eternals with Angelina Jolie.
The 32-year-old was nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2019. The Dubliner went on to receive two further BAFTA nods for the Irish crime drama Calm with Horses and the black comedy Saltburn.
Watch: Barry Keoghan meets the family in Saltburn.
He picked up the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for his role in the Martin McDonagh-directed The Banshees of Inisherin, a movie about two friends falling out, at the 2023 ceremony.
Keoghan also received nominations for the role from the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
His scenes in Saltburn went viral when at the end of the film Keoghan is seen dancing naked around a luxury manor to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Murder on the Dancefloor.
Keoghan recently starred in the drama Bird and the rural Irish thriller Bring Them Down. He will next appear in Netflix's film of the hit series Peaky Blinders opposite Oscar winner Cillian Murphy.
Harris Dickinson (John Lennon)
The 28-year-old Londoner's debut film role was in the US-set 2017 movie Beach Rats as a young man struggling with his sexuality, earning him an Independent Spirit Awards nomination for Best Actor.
He starred in Danny Boyle's series Trust, playing kidnapping victim John Paul Getty III opposite Hollywood heavyweights Donald Sutherland and Hilary Swank, and earned a 2022 Rising Star BAFTA nomination.
Dickinson's next roles included the Disney fantasy movie Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as a prince and the action movie The King's Man with Ralph Fiennes.
He has also opted for more absurd movies, including the Palme d'Or-winning Triangle of Sadness, which saw him play a struggling model who ends up on a doomed luxury cruise. He played a wrestler in the critically acclaimed true story The Iron Claw.
His other film credits include The Souvenir Part II, alongside Tilda Swinton and her daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, the thriller Where the Crawdads Sing, and the comedy Scrapper.
For many recent filmgoers, Dickinson is also known for starring in Babygirl, playing a young man who seduces a businesswoman, played by Nicole Kidman, in the 2024 erotic thriller.
Dickinson was recently BAFTA nominated in the Supporting Actor category for the FX mystery series A Murder at the End of the World. The awards take place in May.
Joseph Quinn (George Harrison)
The Londoner, 31, joined Stranger Things for the fourth season as Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast Eddie Munson. Previously, he appeared in an adaptation of E M Forster's Howards End and Dickensian, about various Charles Dickens characters, on the BBC.
Quinn has starred in the alien invasion movie A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel to the films A Quiet Place (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2020). He also appeared in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones and the historical Sky drama Catherine the Great with Helen Mirren.
Quinn was cast as one of the two feuding Roman emperors and brothers in Gladiator II, portraying the less mad Geta opposite Fred Hechinger as the unstable Emperor Caracalla.
Hechinger previously said they were inspired by the comic characters Beavis and Butthead in their portrayals of the brothers.
Quinn will next be seen opposite Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the Marvel movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
He will portray Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch, the brother of Sue Storm (Kirby), otherwise known as The Invisible Woman.
Source: Press Association
