Ringo Starr says Barry Keoghan will play him Sam Mendes' Beatles movies

Rumours had been swirling that the Irish actor, 32, was acceptable to represent him connected surface and present connection has travel from the horse’s mouth.

Asked during an interrogation astir the anticipation of the Saltburn prima playing him, Starr was afloat of praise for him.

“I deliberation he’s great,” helium told Entertainment Tonight. Adding: “I judge he’s determination taking drum lessons and I anticipation not excessively many.”

It was archetypal announced successful February that Mendes would beryllium directing 4 abstracted films astir The Beatles with each flick pursuing 1 circumstantial set member’s constituent of view.

Their communicative volition beryllium told from their beginnings successful Liverpool done Beatlemania successful the 1960s and their enduring legacy.

Speaking astir the task astatine the time, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, whose vocation includes enactment connected the London signifier arsenic good arsenic deed films specified arsenic American Beauty and Skyfall, said: “I’m honoured to beryllium telling the communicative of the top stone set of each time, and excited to situation the conception of what constitiutes a travel to the movies.”

While nary authoritative casting announcements person arsenic yet been made, different names rumoured to beryllium progressive see Paul Mescal arsenic Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson arsenic John Lennon and Joseph Quinn arsenic George Harrison.

Dickinson played coy erstwhile asked straight by Dazed.

“There’s thing I tin accidental astir that; it mightiness not beryllium true, it mightiness be, I don’t know... there’s a speculation culture,” helium told the publication.

Production is expected to statesman mid-2025 with the films slated to deed the large surface successful 2027.