Four Beatles Biopics At Once?! Here's What We Expect for the Launch of the Beatles Cinematic Universe

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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With the news that Sam Mendes will direct one Beatles biopic for each member, all due in 2027, we make some predictions for the Beatles Cinematic Universe, discuss the overall music biopic boom, look back at the best Beatles movies of the past, and more, with Rob Sheffield (author of Dreaming the Beatles) joining host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone music now.
0:04.0	When this news came, the Sam Mendez is going to direct four different Beatles BioPix.
0:10.0	One for John, one for Paul, one for George, and one of course for Ringo.
0:14.2	That, by the way, are all supposed to come out in the same year.
0:17.7	I don't know if you caught that part of it, but I just double-check.
0:20.6	The head of Sony told Hollywood reporter, that is the I said I need to talk to Rob Sheffield about this I need to discuss this what was your first reaction to this news
0:30.6	It's fascinating news. It's the first time something like this has come from Apple, which makes all the difference.
0:37.0	It's very different from Peter Jackson doing the get back thing.
0:41.0	Peter Jackson in the Beatles is a match that really does make very clear
0:45.3	sense in the world. In retrospect it looks inevitable that someone with his epic scope would be taking on get back.
0:52.8	Sam Mendez is a more arcane connection.
0:55.9	That one is like more of a surprise.
0:57.8	It's like, yeah, he does James Bond movies
0:59.8	and also he's going to be telling the story of the Beatles.
1:02.0	It's different from previous
1:04.0	fictional versions mostly just because it's inside and because Apple knows what they're
1:08.0	doing with this. Sam Mendez wouldn't have been the first name that would have popped
1:12.3	to mind.
1:13.0	Apple, Jeff Jones, they know exactly what they're doing.
1:15.8	The idea is, so Sony is thinking that with the movie business in flux,
1:21.6	the idea is to take these big innovative swings that the same old thing
1:25.0	doesn't necessarily work and it's a great time to try something huge and wildly different.
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