Harry Lawtey, Farhan Akhtar, Lucy Boynton and Morfydd Clark are boarding Sony and Neal Street’s The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event from Oscar winning filmmaker Sam Mendes. The below-the-line team was also announced today with production currently underway in the UK for an April 2028 theatrical release.
Lawtey, who plays Robert Spearing on HBO’s Industry, will portray Stuart Sutcliffe aka ‘The Fifth Beatle’ and the band’s original bass guitarist who left the band to paint in 1961. His high point with the band was singing “Love Me Tender” which reportedly rubbed Paul McCartney the wrong way. Sutcliffe created a reputation for playing with his back to the audience, though that has been denied by the group’s first drummer Pete Best.
Akhtar (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag) will play Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and classical musician who had an influence on guitarist George Harrison, and the ultimate use of…