Four Beatles Movies Is Too Much

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I love The Beatles. I still use Beatles songs for ringtones on my phone so I’m hearing a little Beatles every day. So when I say that Deadline’s report about four Beatles movies all directed by Sam Mendes sounds like a terrible idea, it’s not coming from a place of someone who’s indifferent to the Fab Four.

According to Deadline, the idea is for Mendes is to have each film focus on a different member of The Beatles—John, Paul, George, and Ringo—and convey their point of view. While that’s certainly ambitious, I’m not sure that it’s all that interesting. Maybe you have something if you take an event and John Lennon sees it differently than Paul McCarthy, but that doesn’t seem all that illuminating for the audience. It also seems like a bit of biopic overload with the hopes that audiences will keep coming back to see similar events from different perspective. Is Ringo Starr’s view of the rooftop concert drastically different from George Harrison’s?