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“Paul is actually stacked up, doing The Beatles next”: It’s (very nearly) official: Paul Mescal looks set to play Paul McCartney in new Sam Mendes biopic

Paul Mescal and Paul McCartney portrait photos.

Movie auteur Ridley Scott – while having zero to do with the project – may have just given away the ending of one of the movie industry’s current favourite plotlines: Which four hot young rising stars are being lined up to play The Beatles in Sam Mendes’ upcoming new series of biopics?

The Gladiator II director was attending a screening of the movie at a Director’s Guild of America event and taking part in a Q&A with fellow movie master Christopher Nolan. During the conversation, Scott confirmed to Nolan that his next movie would be the thriller The Dog Stars, a post-apocalyptic tale which – it’s rumoured – will see Scott once more teaming up with Gladiator II star Mescal.

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