Speaker 1: Done anything good.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: This is exciting, great news about the most important band
Speaker 1: of all time, the Beatles. So for years various movie
Speaker 1: makers and storytellers have worked out how to tell the
Speaker 1: stories of the Beatles, which is an incredible story anyway,
Speaker 1: their friendship, how they changed music forever. I know Steven
Speaker 1: Spielberg for about twenty years has hired three different screenwriters
Speaker 1: and then wasn't happy enough for what they turned in.
Speaker 1: Because if you're going to tell the Beatles story, it
Speaker 1: has to be incredible because the music.
Speaker 2: Is so much pressure on it. I can't think of
Speaker 2: another subject matter where people would be as passionate as
Speaker 2: the story of the Beatles. But this is such a
Speaker 2: cool undertaking. It's going to be four interconnected films, each
Speaker 2: from the point of view of one of the Beatles.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea. Sam Mendes is directing it, who
Speaker 1: did the Bond of Movies with Daniel Craig. Also did
Speaker 1: American Beauty as well, so I mean he's got his
Speaker 1: work cut out. They're coming out three is time on
Speaker 1: the same weekend, all four Beatles movies, so there'll be
Speaker 1: a Ringo one George one, there'd be the John one
Speaker 1: and the Paul one. Paul mescal who's a great Irish actor,
Speaker 1: is going to playing Paul McCartney. Barry Kyogan. If you've
Speaker 1: seen Saltburn, great Irish actor, he's Ringo. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: looks a little bit like Ringo as well. I don't
Speaker 1: know who the other two actors are that, but obviously
Speaker 1: going to be very very good actors. That Sam Menders
Speaker 1: is high.
Speaker 2: Yank is so excited about this guy, Harris Dickinson. He
Speaker 2: was in this on Nicole Kidman movie.
Speaker 1: Ah, oh, I know the one, the rude one. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you can take myself on a tree. Rude
Speaker 2: for me, but the kids loved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: He's so excited.
Speaker 1: He's been in a couple of things.
Speaker 2: He's a great He's going to be John Lennon.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so have you seen him. There's been a
Speaker 1: couple of Beatles movies over the years. There was Backbeat,
Speaker 1: which came out in the nineties with Stephen Dorf and
Speaker 1: Ian Hartley. That was okay, but it was only about
Speaker 1: them making it in Hamberg like in the really raw
Speaker 1: early days.
Speaker 2: Well that's it's such an epic story, how do you
Speaker 2: tell it in two hours? And that's why this is
Speaker 2: such a unique but exciting idea for films.
Speaker 1: So you'd be it'd be like a kind of you
Speaker 1: know how we binge TV shows where you watch four
Speaker 1: episodes over like in a day or two. You would
Speaker 1: actually be in one day be able to watch all
Speaker 1: four Beatles movies. It's like a kind of binge able
Speaker 1: movie watching, isn't it, Because if it's me, I want
Speaker 1: to over the weekend, I want to see all four movies.
Speaker 2: And I would feel sorry for one of the Beatles
Speaker 2: if we were like we saw three and like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm not going.
Speaker 1: To say about the drummer story or George or just
Speaker 1: want to see John am Paul
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