George Harrison’s first wife ‘attacks’ Beatles biopic movies

Pattie Boyd has said no one involved with the forthcoming Beatles biopics has approached her, despite casting an actress to play her.

Former Magdalen College School pupil Sir Sam Mendes is to make four separate films about The Beatles, with one from each band member’s perspective.

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Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison have all granted permission and music rights for the four biopics.

Sir Sam attended Magdalen College School in east Oxford in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The series about the Fab Four is due for a simultaneous release in April 2028.

It will star Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and each film will tell the story of the band from a different member’s point of view.

Other actors who will star in the films include Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai, Mia McKenna-Bruce, and Aimee Lou Wood, who are playing Linda McCartney, Yoko Ono, Maureen Starkey, and Pattie Boyd, respectively, with Sir Sam calling all four women “fascinating and unique figures in their own right”.

Pattie Boyd (Image: Eddie Janssens/Wikimedia Commons)

Speaking about the ambitious movie project, Ms Boyd told a podcast that nobody had “reached out” to her.

She added: “I might be completely wrong, but I would have thought it would be polite to mention it to me or let me know that they got someone who’s going to be playing me.

“Don’t you think they’d let me know? Well, I haven’t been contacted by anyone. I could have really told them great stories.

“But I don’t think they want to know. I think they want to create something that’s completely different, like a different story.”

Ms Boyd added that the forthcoming biopics seem to have “nothing to do with the truth (and) nothing to do with what really happened because they don’t want to talk to anyone who was there”.

Instead, she said it was closer to “the filmmaker’s creation of what they think happened”, according to the NME music and pop culture publication.

George Harrison with Pattie Boyd after their wedding (Image: KRLA Beat/Wikimedia Commons)

Mrs Boyd first met Mr Harrison on the set of 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night, eventually marrying the guitarist in 1966 and divorcing him in 1977.

For many years, Mr Harrison lived at Friar Park in Henley, and his family still owns the mansion. He died in 2001.

A recording studio was used at Friar Park by Mr Harrison for his solo albums.

The studio was also used for work on Traveling Wilburys releases – the former Beatle was a member of the supergroup, which also featured Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne.

And recording and filming for The Beatles’ 1995 Anthology project also took place at the mansion studio.