‘Game of Thrones’ Actor Harry Lloyd Cast as ‘Fifth Beatle’ Producer George Martin in Sam Mendes’ Beatles Biopics

So far, we’ve gotten dribs and drabs of casting news about director Sam Mendes’ ambitious four-part Beatles biopic series, The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event. We know that the band will be played by Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney), Harris Dickinson (John Lennon), Barry Keoghan (Ringo Starr), and Joseph Quinn (George Harrison).

We also recently learned that Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) will play McCartney’s wife Linda McCartney, Shogun‘s Anna Sawai will play Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, The White Lotus‘ Aimee Lou Wood is on board to portray Harrison’s Pattie Boyd and How to Have Sex‘s Mia McKenna-Bruce will play Starr’s wife, Maureen Starkey.

And now, according to Giles Martin, music producer and son of late “fifth Beatle” George Martin, his dad will be portrayed by British actor Harry Lloyd, best known for portraying Viserys Targaryen on the fifth season of Game of Thrones. Martin dropped the news during an interview on the Virgin Radio U.K.’s Ryan Turbridy Show on Friday (Nov. 21) where he revealed that Lloyd has been tapped to play his father.

“He’s really good,” Martin said in breaking the news about Lloyd, who will step in to portray the vaunted producer/composer/arranger who went down the recording rabbit hole with the group as they vastly expanded on their pop sound with wildly experimental albums, producing all but one (Let It Be) of the group’s LPs almost entirely alone; Martin died in 2016 at age 90. “He’s just very committed,” Martin said in praising Lloyd, adding that “all” of the actors cast so far are up to the task.

In addition to GoT, Lloyd has appeared in a number of U.K. television dramas, including Wolf Hall, and Marcella, as well as playing the lead role in the 2020 adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s sci-fi classic Brave New World.

The four films are currently in production with the quartet slated to hit theaters in April 2028.

Watch Martin reveal the news below.