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Sam Mendes, Sony & Apple Corps Set Four Beatles Theatrical Movies On Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison & Ringo Starr
Sam Mendes has set plans to make four separate Beatles movies, one each on John, Paul, George and Ringo.
“This project springs from an idea of Sam’s which he had over a year ago, and it’s a testament to his creative brilliance and powers of persuasion that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon and Olivia Harrison responded with such warmth and enthusiasm as soon as he spoke with them,” said Harris. The Beatles changed the face of music and pop culture fame, and their popularity eclipsed even that of Elvis Presley after they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, and tore the roof off the place, inspiring countless great musicians who watched as children and knew what they wanted to do with their lives. For bassist and songwriter McCartney, it was teaming with his life love Linda McCartney to form Wings; for guitarist and songwriter Lennon, it was his romantic and music and activism partnership with Yoko Ono; lead guitarist Harrison immersed himself in Indian culture, and would co-found the supergroup the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, ELO’s Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty, and he organized the Concert for Bangladesh to ease starvation and suffering of refugees during a civil war there.
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