Ben Schwartz has joined the cast of “The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event.”
Schwartz’s role is unspecified, but photographers captured the actor on the films’ set this week. He joins an ensemble that includes Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harrison Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. The cast also boasts Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce, who are playing Linda McCartney, Yoko Ono, Pattie Boyd and Maureen Starkey, respectively. Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “American Beauty” and “1917,” directs.
Harry Lloyd is playing the Beatles’ long-time music producer George Martin, while the previously reported addition of James Norton as their manager Brian Epstein has also been confirmed.
The band’s inner circle includes David Morrissey as Paul McCartney’s father Jim McCartney, Leanne Best as John Lennon’s Aunt Mimi, Bobby Schofield as road manager and trusted confidant Neil Aspinall, Daniel Hoffmann-Gill as roadie Mal Evans, Arthur Darvill as press officer and friend Derek Taylor and Adam Pally as controversial music manager Allen Klein.
Each film will center on a different member of the Beatles’ point of view, intersecting to capture the band’s improbable journey from Liverpool to the center of global culture, culminating in their 1970 breakup. This marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd. and the Beatles have granted full life-story and music rights for a scripted film.
