It is reported that Saoirse Ronan is to play Linda McCartney opposite the previously announced Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney in director Sam Mendes's The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event.
US entertainment trade publication Deadline, which first reported the story, said it had been told by "multiple sources" that Ronan has joined the cast of the upcoming biopics, with each film focusing on a different member of The Beatles.
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Representatives for film studio Sony declined to comment on the story.
Along with Mescal portraying McCartney, the films will also see Mescal's fellow Irish actor Barry Keoghan playing Ringo Starr, Babygirl's Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Mescal's Gladiator II co-star Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.
The four films are due for release in April 2028.
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"Ronan is expected to feature prominently in the instalment centred on McCartney, though it's unknown to what extent she might appear in the other three," said Deadline.
Ronan and Mescal previously starred together in the 2023 sci-fi thriller Foe.
Linda McCartney was a photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. She married Paul McCartney in 1969 and was his bandmate in his post-Beatles outfit Wings. She died from cancer in 1998.
The ambitious four-film project marks the first time The Beatles, their multimedia company Apple Corps Ltd, and the families of the late John Lennon and George Harrison have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.
Speaking at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas in April, which the four leads also attended, director Mendes called the films the "first binge-able theatrical experience".
"I've been trying to make a story about The Beatles for years," he added.
Source: Press Association
