Ringo Starr wishes Sam Mendes "peace and love" while shooting 4 movies simultaneously

Nobody could argue that sentiment. Starr did, however, push back a bit on Mendes when they met in London this past April and went over the script for the Ringo film, the NYT reports. Starr revealed he gave notes on the depiction of his relationship with his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett. Mendes “had a writer—very good writer, great reputation, and he wrote it great, but it had nothing to do with Maureen and I,” Starr shared. “That’s not how we were. I’d say, ‘We would never do that.'”

We know the writers on board for this ambitious project: Jack Throne (Enola Holmes, Adolescence), Jez Butterworth (Ford V Ferrari, Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny), and Peter Straughan (Conclave, Wolf Hall). We don’t, however, know which writer is working on which movie. Straughan once let slip that he was writing the George Harrison script and was “firewalled” from the other writers. Given that only three writers were announced, we’ve previously speculated that maybe Mendes himself is tackling one of the scripts. Based on Starr’s comment and by process of elimination, we can guess that Thorne or Butterworth is writing the Ringo movie. In November Starr said he’d heard Keoghan was “taking drum lessons” to lead the film, which will also feature Paul Mescal as McCartney, Harris Dickinson as Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as Harrison. 

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