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Sam Mendes’ four Beatles films to be written by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne
The director has appointed the acclaimed Olivier, Tony, Bafta and Oscar winning talents to be the screenwriters for The Beatles: A Four-Film Cinematic Event
The award-winning British writers Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne will pen Sam Mendes’ four Beatles films, it has been reported. For stage, he has written the Olivier and Tony award-winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and most recently The Motive and the Cue, which was directed by Mendes. Mendes conceived and will direct the films, which mark the first time Apple, the Beatles’ record company, and the two living band members, McCartney and Starr, have granted the rights to their stories for the big screen.
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