Barry Keoghan set to star in Beatles biopic, claims Ringo Starr

Barry Keoghan is about to play Ringo Starr on display, in keeping with the drummer himself.

In a brand new interview with Leisure Tonight, Starr has confirmed that the Oscar-nominated star of The Banshees of Inisherin and Saltburn will likely be taking part in him in Sam Mendes’s formidable new set of movies concerning the Beatles.

“I believe it’s nice,” the 84-year-old stated stated when requested for his ideas on Keoghan’s alleged casting. “I consider he’s someplace taking drum classes, and I hope not too many.”

The 4 movies, from the director of American Magnificence and 1917, will likely be from every band member’s perspective. “I’m honoured to be telling the story of the best rock band of all time and excited to problem the notion of what constitutes a visit to the flicks,” Mendes stated.

Life and music rights has been supplied by surviving members and the estates of their deceased bandmates. Regardless of this, producer Pippa Harrison has claimed that there’s “nothing off limits and no sense of the band wanting him to inform a selected ‘authorised’ model of their rise to success”.

Keoghan adopted up acclaimed performances in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and American Animals with an Oscar-nominated efficiency in The Banshees of Inisherin.

He has since starred in Emerald Fennell’s divisive thriller Saltburn and is now starring in Andrea Arnold’s Fowl. His subsequent roles embrace psychological thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow alongside The Weeknd and the much-anticipated Peaky Blinders film.

No casting has been formally confirmed as but however many names have been mentioned, together with that of Gladiator II star Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney. “I’d like to be concerned, however there’s nothing set in stone,” Mescal lately informed GQ.

Triangle of Unhappiness actor Harris Dickinson has additionally been rumoured to be taking part in John Lennon. “There’s nothing I can say about that,” he lately informed Dazed. “It may not be true, it may be, I don’t know … there’s a hypothesis tradition.”

The movies will all be launched in 2027.