Four Beatles Movies are Coming Together. Here’s Everything We Know

Perhaps the most famous Beatles Wife is the artist, musician, and activist Yoko Ono, who Lennon met in 1966. They got together in 1968, while Lennon was still very much with his wife Cynthia, who will be played in the film(s) by Morfydd Clark. After his divorce, Lennon married Ono in 1969. She’ll be played by Japanese actress Anna Sawai, who is best known for her TV work on Pachinko, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Shogun, for which she won an Emmy. More importantly, she knows Godzilla! And Kong!!

Model and photographer Pattie Boyd was married to George Harrison from 1966 until 1977, and subsequently married Eric Clapton, who had been obsessed with her for years and in fact wrote “Layla” about her, along with “Bell Bottom Blues” and “Wonderful Tonight.” He couldn’t quite outdo Harrison, who wrote the much-covered “Something” about Boyd, as well as “I Need You,” “If I Needed Someone,” and “For You Blue” (underrated tune, that). A major figure in Harrison’s life, she’ll doubtless have a lot of screentime in his film, where she’ll be played by Aimee Lou Wood from the third season of The White Lotus.

Finally, there’s Maureen Starkey, the hairdresser who Ringo Starr married in 1965. She was just 18 at the time, and the beginning of their relationship in 1962 managed to fly in under even the “well, she was just seventeen” from the band’s “I Saw Her Standing There.” The second half of their ten years of marriage was marked by affairs from both partners – including one between Maureen and George Harrison. Maureen, who died in 1994, will be played by Mia McKenna-Bruce, who has done a variety of British TV and starred in the sometimes-harrowing coming-of-age picture How to Have Sex. She also stars in the next Claire Denis film The Fence.

Fifth Beatles: Brian Epstein, George Martin, Stu Sutcliffe

A portrait of the late Beatle member Stu Sutcliffe sitting in a rocking chair. Sutcliffe played bass guitar in a Hamburg nightclub with the Silver Beatles before he died of a brain tumor in 1962.Bettmann

LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 25: Harry Lawtey attends the UK Premiere of “Joker Folie à Deux” at the Cineworld Leicester Square on September 25, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)Mike Marsland