Oscar winner Sam Mendes is making four Beatles movies, and all four will be released theatrically in April 2028.

The filmmaker, who announced the news at CinemaCon, confirmed the much-speculated casting. Paul Mescal is Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan will star as Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson will be John Lennon.

The four stars came out on stage and bowed in the style that the band popularized in their heyday.

Mendes promised that the multi-part biopic, officially titled ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event,’ will be the “first binge-able theatrical experience.” It’s unclear whether that means the movies will be released all at once or one per week.

But he didn’t want to make a mini-series and he worried that “the story was too huge to fit into a single movie.” So he came up with a plan to tell the story of “the greatest band in history” from the perspective of each of its members, to try to capture their improbable journey from Liverpool to the center of global culture. That meant four standalone features and one of the biggest bets in movie history.

“It’s a chance to understand them more deeply,” Mendes promised.

Mendes said that principal photography on the four films will take a year, a massive effort.

Tom Rothman, Sony Pictures chief who oversaw production on a certain James Cameron sci-fi epic back when he was at Fox, joked that Mendes’ film was giving him “‘Avatar’ flashbacks.”