A MAJOR Hollywood studio is making a biopic of the so-called ‘fourth Beatle’ Ringo Starr, it has emerged. 

Sam Mendes is to direct a quartet of films about the Beatles so, presumably contractually, one of them is about the band’s drummer and hanger-on.

Beatles fan Joseph Turner said: “I guess the fourth film in a series is always a disappointment.

“Still, it’s hard to imagine the audience for this. Ringo Starr, obviously. His Bond girl wife Barbara Bach. Other family. Are there any die-hard fans of Thomas the Tank Engine’s early years? They might be interested in it as an origin story.

“What will be in it? The composing of Octopus’s Garden? It’s basically the same events as the other three movies but filmed from the back. He wasn’t even in the band until 1962.

“Excellent casting choice in Barry Keoghan, though. He’s someone else elevated to fame far beyond his talent or ability who’ll spend the rest of his life coming to terms with how it happened and where it went.”