Saoirse Ronan has signed up to play Linda McCartney in Sir Sam Mendes' upcoming four Beatles films.

The Irish actress will portray Paul McCartney’s first wife, the photographer, musician, and animal rights activist Linda Eastman.

Eastman met McCartney in 1967 while on a photo assignment in London and again shortly after at a launch party for the "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. They got married in 1969, and shortly after the breakup of The Beatles, she began recording music with Paul as part of Wings.

Ronan joins a cast that includes Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon. Aimee Lou Wood is reportedly in talks to play the English model and photographer Patti Boyd, George Harrison’s wife of 11 years.

Each of the Mendes-directed films will tell the story of the band from a different member’s perspective. While Ronan will likely feature prominently in the McCartney installment, it’s currently unknown how much she’ll appear in the other three. The biopic series is set for release in April 2028.

Mendes’ Beatles movies are a gigantic swing for Sony. Each movie will focus on a different Beatle’s perspective, and the plan is to shoot the films simultaneously over the course of an entire year. Then, Sony plans to release all four movies the same month in April 2028. The studio is betting on dominating cinemas for a massive theatrical event that month, and while Mendes revealed there is an order in which he wants you to see those four films, it’s unclear just yet what that order is.

Source: Press Release