{"id":38685,"date":"2025-07-03T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/ringo-starr-had-some-notes-for-sam-mendes-on-his-beatles-biopic-script\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:38:24","slug":"ringo-starr-had-some-notes-for-sam-mendes-on-his-beatles-biopic-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/ringo-starr-had-some-notes-for-sam-mendes-on-his-beatles-biopic-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr Had Some Notes for Sam Mendes on His Beatles Biopic Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWe\u2019re three years away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sam-mendes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-mendes\" data-tag=\"sam-mendes\">Sam Mendes<\/a>\u2018 Beatles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/beatles-movie-biopic-sam-mendes-1235310799\/\">movie project<\/a>, a massive undertaking in which he\u2019ll direct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beatles-biopic-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-1234971245\/\">four different films<\/a> from each of the Fab Four\u2019s perspective. As expected, it doesn\u2019t come easy: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ringo-starr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ringo-starr\" data-tag=\"ringo-starr\">Ringo Starr<\/a> recently revealed he gave extensive notes to the director on his script, where he\u2019s portrayed by Barry Keoghan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn an interview with<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/02\/arts\/music\/ringo-starr-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\"> The New York Times<\/a><\/em>, Starr said that he flew to London to meet Mendes and spent two days going over the script with him, line by line. Starr requested that parts be rewritten, specifically involving scenes with his family and his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett. \u201cHe had a writer \u2014 very good writer, great reputation, and he wrote it great, but it had nothing to do with Maureen and I,\u201d Starr said. \u201cThat\u2019s not how we were. I\u2019d say, \u2018We would never do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tStarr, who is currently promoting his country album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/Look%20Up\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Look Up<\/a><\/em>, told the outlet that he\u2019s now more satisfied with the script, and gave Mendes his signature send-off: \u201cHe\u2019ll do what he\u2019s doing,\u201d he said, \u201cand I\u2019ll send him peace and love.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn addition to Keoghan \u2014 who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/barry-keoghan-ringo-starr-upcoming-films-meeting-1235334206\/\">met with Starr <\/a>at his home \u2014 the other Beatles will be played by Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. Officially titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beatles\" data-tag=\"the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a> \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/em>, the cast was revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-beatles-biopics-sam-mendes-casting-2028-release-date-1235307728\/\">at CinemaCon<\/a> in Las Vegas in April. \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to be here,\u201d they said, reciting lines from \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s certainly a thrill. You\u2019re such a lovely audience, we\u2019d like to take you home with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tUpon the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beatles-biopic-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-1234971245\/\">project\u2019s announcement<\/a>, Mendes said, \u201cI\u2019m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies.\u201d As the development of the biopic continues, we expect McCartney to also provide some feedback. Who knows, maybe he\u2019ll slip in a totally inaccurate scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bob-dylan-inaccurate-scene-a-complete-unknown-timothee-chalamet-1235170932\/\">like Bob Dylan did<\/a> on <em>A Complete Unknown<\/em>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ringo-starr-sam-mendes-beatles-biopics-1235378506\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re three years away from Sam Mendes\u2018 Beatles movie project, a massive undertaking in which he\u2019ll direct four different films from each of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}