Sam Mendes' four Beatles biopics found the writer.

Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth ("Ford v Ferrari," "Spectre"), Academy Award winner Peter Straughan ("Conclave," "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy") and BAFTA and Tony Award winner Jack Thorne ("Adolscence," "Enola Holmes") are set to write the screenplays for the four theatrical films from Sony Pictures and Neal Street Productions.

The film is the first of Apple Corps Ltd. and The Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – granting a scripted film full life story and music rights.

Mendes conceived and will direct these four films, each intersecting from the perspective of another band member to tell the story of the iconic band.

The films will feature Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Paul Mescal, Paul McCartney and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

Sony Pictures will provide funding and distribution globally in April 2028.

"The Beatles - Four Movie Movie Events" is a Neal Street work, working with Sony Pictures' Apple Corps.

Mendes is working with his Neal Street work partner Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor of Neal Street. Alexandra Derbyshire ("Wonka") is also in production.

Butterworth's recent screenwriter honors include James Mangold's Ford V Ferrari and Indiana Jones and Distiny of Destiny." Another of his works include "Ghost", "Black Mass" and "The Edge of Tomorrow." Butterworth is also an award-winning playwright who wrote The Ferryman, for which he won Tony’s best contest and recently won The California of California, just received seven Tony nominations, including the Best Competition. Both dramas are directed by Sam Mendes.

Straughan recently won an Academy Award for the thriller "Conference" starring Edward Berger's thriller "Convases" (Ralph Fiennes), John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini. He previously co-wrote the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. The script earned them an Academy Award nomination and won BAFTA with an adapted script. His other film honors include "Our Brand Is Crisis" and "Frank". On TV, Straughan adapted Hilary Mantel's best-selling novel Wolf Hall, which won the BAFTA Best Drama Series. He also wrote the sequel, Wolf Hall: Mirror and Light.

Thorne is a BAFTA and Tony award-winning screenwriter and dramatist. His recent hit series, “Adolescent,” has been widely praised. His film honors include "Swimmer", "Enola Holmes" and "Enola Holmes 2", "Aeronauts" and "Wonder". His other TV power includes "Toxic Town", "His Dark Material", "Help" and "Best Benefit". On the theater side, Thorne wrote Tony and Olivier's award-winning "Harry Pott and the Cursed Child" and recently directed by Sam Mendes.

Butterworth's CAA and Alan Wertheimer at Jackoway Austen Tyerman declined. Straughan was rejected by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and CAA. Thorne was rejected by UTA, Casarotto, Ramsay & Associates and Sloane, Evers, Weber & Dern.

The Insneide people first reported Thorne as a writer, and Deadline was the first to reveal Butterworth and Straughan.