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This week,Sonyofficially announced the cast for The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event.
Ive enjoyed work from all those guys, and I think they all have the potential to nail it.
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Whatissurprising is the announced release schedule.
All four films are being planned for release in April 2028.
It isn’t yet clear how closely the films' release dates will be to each other.
From that perspective, I can see how Sony arrived at this plan.
But the appeal of Barbenheimer was that they were two very different movies.
It’s the whole reason the double feature took off as a meme.
One was a drama, one was a comedy.
One was primarily targeted at women, the other at men.
One was dark, the other bright pink.
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One was about a toy, the other was about the nuclear bomb.
The movies were good on their own, but were elevated by the unlikely pairing.
Do you want to sit in a theater for eight-plus hours of the same thing?
Now, Sam Mendes might take the project in an interesting direction.
He might explore The Beatles different personalities through different genres.
If they all feel the same, I don’t see how this works on any level.
Do people want to see Paul or John more?
Does that reflect on The Beatles?
The actors playing them?
How could four films about the same band not fall prey to the same phenomenon?
How could the Paul movie not cannibalize the Ringo movie if they’re all playing at the same time?
It just doesn’t seem feasible.
And I suspect that, as April 2028 draws nearer, Sony will come to the same conclusion.
There’s simply no way these movies actually all release in the same month.
Every Half-Life breaks new ground, just like a certain blockbuster film series.
