Hollywood's musical biopic era is thriving.
In case you haven’t heard, The Beatles are finally getting the proper musical biopic treatment, with not just one butseparate films detailing each of the Fab Fours’s lives, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes.
“I’m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” Mendes, who also directedThe four films will hit theaters in 2027, with Sony saying the release strategy will be “innovative and groundbreaking.” While three years seems far away, it’s not a ton of time to make four films—and rumors of the cast have already broken the internet.
It’s been a huge couple of years for musical biopics; while each film’s quality is debatable, they certainly have been flooding the market. There was Baz Luhrmann’sdirector Antoine Fuqua; a Ridley Scott film about the rise of the Bee Gees and a Martin Scorcese biopic about The Grateful Dead . Audiences have also proved they like movies they can sing along to in theaters, with the massive success of concert films like Taylor Swift’sfilm. Meanwhile, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has proven the appeal of interconnected film franchises. If f there’s one group that can still bring those trends and audiences from Boomers to Gen Z together , it’s perhaps The Beatles.
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