{"id":31032,"date":"2024-12-12T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/actor-harris-dickinson-comments-on-whether-hell-play-john-lennon-in-beatles-films-well-see\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:02:29","slug":"actor-harris-dickinson-comments-on-whether-hell-play-john-lennon-in-beatles-films-well-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/actor-harris-dickinson-comments-on-whether-hell-play-john-lennon-in-beatles-films-well-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Harris Dickinson comments on whether he\u2019ll play John Lennon in Beatles films: \u2018We\u2019ll see\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-12\/Getty_HarrisDickinson_121224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Eric Charbonneau\/A24 via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While no official casting for <strong>Sam Mendes<\/strong>\u2019 movies about <strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Beatles<\/strong>\u00a0has been announced, the rumors continue to swirl, and now one of the actors mentioned as a possible candidate to play <strong>John Lennon<\/strong> has spoken out on the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the red carpet for his new movie <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Babygirl<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, actor <strong>Harris Dickinson<\/strong> neither confirmed nor denied his involvement in the project when asked by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/columns\/harris-dickinson-john-lennon-casting-beatles-movies-would-be-amazing-1236246799\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt would be amazing to do that,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the idea of Sam teaming up to do something like that would be incredibly exciting. Obviously, John Lennon is a very complex role, a pretty formidable force to try to do. It would be cool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When asked outright if he was on board for the films, he simply replied, \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mendes\u2019 Beatles project was announced back in February, with the director revealing he planned to make four separate films, one for each member of the group \u2014 Lennon, <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>,<strong> Ringo Starr\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>George Harrison<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As previously reported, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Gladiator<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> director <strong>Ridley Scott<\/strong> revealed in a talk with director\u00a0<strong>Christopher Nolan\u00a0<\/strong>at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles Tuesday that <strong>Paul Mescal<\/strong> would be doing one of the films; he\u2019s rumored to be playing McCartney. In addition, Ringo recently let it slip in an\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/media\/videos\/ringo-starr-reflects-on-the-beatles-brotherhood-after-receiving-unexpected-grammy-noms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1 s2\"><strong>Entertainment Tonight<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0interview that\u00a0<strong>Barry Keoghan\u00a0<\/strong>had been cast to play him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sony Pictures is the studio behind the movies, and it marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd. and The Beatles have granted a studio the rights to the life stories of the band members and their legendary catalog of music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Charbonneau\/A24 via Getty Images While no official casting for Sam Mendes\u2019 movies about The\u00a0Beatles\u00a0has been announced, the rumors continue to swirl, and now one of the actors mentioned as a possible candidate to play John Lennon has spoken out on the subject. On the red carpet for his new<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/actor-harris-dickinson-comments-on-whether-hell-play-john-lennon-in-beatles-films-well-see\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}