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Ringo Starr Definitely Had Notes For Director Sam Mendes on Beatles Biopic Script: ‘That’s Not How We Were’

Ringo Starr said he had some notes for director Sam Mendes on the script for his portion of the filmmaker's upcoming four-part biopic series.

But the Beatles legend who has made mellow vibes his calling card for half a century had to share some tough love with director Sam Mendes when the pair met in London earlier this year to discuss the filmmaker’s ambitious four-part Fab Four biopic project. Speaking to The New York Times, the drummer who will turn 85 on Monday (July 7) described sitting down with Mendes for two days in April to go over the script for the film in which Saltburn star Barry Keoghan will play the band’s timekeeper. The paper reported that the pair went over the script for the Ringo film line-by-line, with Starr offering up “extensive notes” to Mendes in an effort to get the story closer to the real thing.

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