Sony, Mendes Cast Four Actresses as Beatles Wives in Four-Film Event

Sony Pictures and filmmaker Sam Mendes have confirmed the casting of four actresses to portray the wives and muses of The Beatles in The Beatles A Four-Film Cinematic Event, the studio announced this week. Mia McKenna-Bruce will play Maureen Cox Starkey, Saoirse Ronan will portray Linda Eastman McCartney, Anna Sawai will play Yoko Ono, and Aimee Lou Wood has been cast as Pattie Boyd. The films are scheduled for theatrical release beginning in April 2028.

The casting announcement follows earlier confirmations of the four actors chosen to play the band members: Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. Mendes conceived the project as four distinct feature films, each told from the perspective of a different Beatle. Scripts are being written by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan, and Jack Thorne, though it has not been disclosed which writer is attached to which individual film.

Producers say the four women played significant roles in the artists' personal and creative lives. Maureen Cox was an early Beatles fan who met Ringo Starr at the Cavern Club and later married him in 1965. Linda Eastman...