Last night at CinemaCon Sam Mendes unveiled the four actors he's cast to play The Beatles in four yes four seperate movies, each one focusing on a single member -- there's Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney. Love all these actors -- you'll see Quinn in Warfare soon enough but that was when I finally decided I am a fan of him -- but as I've probably said on this site a few times over the past twenty years I just do not give a shit about The Beatles. And I don't say that to posture myself as Too Cool or above anything; I recognize that they were an earthquake in music and they have some perfectly good songs but JFC I cannot be bothered. Put their music catalogue or Radiohead's in front of me and I think you can guess where I'll wander. Anyway this will probably turn out to be an interesting expiriment -- telling their story from each point of view -- so if for no other reason we'll be watching. But for right now I invite you to "Do Dump or Marry" these four actors (and as always when there's four feel free to double up on one of those choices) in the comments! (And "Do" = spend one night with; "Dump" = spend zero nights with, and "Marry" equals "spend all the nights with" of course.)
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The one on the right side of the photo does slightly resemble John Lennon and the short one has Ringo Starr’s nose. I guess the one on the left side is going to play Paul McCartney, but I’m with you, Jason. Meh! If you want to see stories about the Beatles, there’s a trio of films about John: The Hours and Times; Nowhere Boy and Naked Lennon. A Hard Day’s Night, Help! and Let it Be are also terrific movies about the fab four. Otherwise, Let it be!
Do: John (Harris), George (Joe)
Dump: Ringo (sorry, Barry)
Marry: Paul
(This is not how I would have placed the real ones in their heyday. Ringo and George for me.)
I was just listening to The Beatles yesterday (no pun intended), actually. But I’ve never been interested in (non-documentary) movies about The Beatles.
Gosh, the casting directors ran out of ideas.
Always the same boring spicy straight guys.
Same as a poster above: Do: Harris & Joe; Dump: Barry; Marry: Paul.
Why choose these actors if people don't go to the movies to support the projects they are in ?
A miniseries would work better I think.
All four MEH !
They probably cast Zendaya as Yoko 😁.
They should have made that formula but with the story of each member The Spice Girls✨.
Hollywood is full of idiots what a waste of money.
But they sure cast Zendaya as Ginger and Pedro Pascal as Posh so no thanks anyway.
Do:Mescal, Marry: Keoghan, Dump: the other two
I wouldn't be surprised if they did !!!😂😂😂😂
Marry Paul and Joe (full brother wives with Paul the dominant), do Barry (murder me on any dance floor), and dump Harris (hot guy, but unfortunate tattoos--so talented).
Honestly, there's room for ALL of them but Marry: Joseph DO: Mescal and Keoghan Dump: Harris (AFTER I've used him like a sex doll )
Do: Barry, you know that boy gets his freak on
Marry: Paul, because waking up to that adorable face could make me a morning person.
Dump the other two, and dump the Beatles
I also don't care about the Beatles. It's not that they suck, it's that they are so, SOOOOOOO overrated. They did not invent rock and roll, their lyrics are generic. They were the Boy Band of their day, good at what they did, but no better than NKOTB in the 80s or Backstreet Boys/N Sync in the 90s or...
I'm not a huge fan (I'm a Stones gal (get it?)), BUT to refer to them as simply a "Boy band" is the greatest disservice ever. In context, they're THE most influential band in music. They created music in their day that NOBODY was doing, and I'm not talking about shit like "Can't Buy Me Love" or "I wanna Hold Your Hand" The really good stuff came after that crap when they started popping LSD like Skittles. To each his own, tho.
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