Beatles biopic stars recreate the Abbey Road album cover

One of the most recognisable shots in music history

Why the Abbey Road shot matters

The image the four actors were restaging is one of the most recognisable in music history, shot on the crossing outside the studios where the band recorded the bulk of their catalogue.

According to the Daily Mail, the local council had tried to block filming at the location. The clip is the clearest look yet at the quartet in character.

Mendes’ series is titled The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, with each film told from the perspective of a different band member, Variety reported.

All four are set for release in April 2028 by Sony Pictures, the studio currently top of the box office with Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

It is the first time the Beatles and their estates have signed off on life rights and music for a theatrical feature film about the band, a permission decades of would-be biopics never secured.

Quite how Mendes handles four overlapping accounts of the same story remains the great unknown, and it is a long wait to find out.

For now the only footage the public has is a few seconds of four men walking a crossing that tourists queue to copy every day.