A new drama about the Beatles' early years in Germany has added several notable names to its cast, with Asa Butterfield set to play manager Brian Epstein and Jonny Lee Miller taking the role of Jim McCartney, Paul McCartney's father.
According to Variety, the six-part series Hamburg Days has also added Christine Tremarco as John Lennon's guardian Aunt Mimi. The show is currently shooting in Hamburg.
Butterfield is known for Sex Education and Unchosen. Lee Miller's credits include Trainspotting and The Crown. Tremarco recently appeared in the acclaimed drama Adolescence.
Additional new cast members include Darci Shaw as Cynthia Lennon, Ryan Sampson as Liverpool promoter Alan Williams, Archie George as singer Tony Sheridan, Jorden Myrie as Lord Woodbine, Lea Drinda as Astrid Kirchherr, Tash Major as Dot Rhone, and Louis McCartney, who will play Ringo Starr. McCartney previously appeared in Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
They join a previously announced ensemble that includes Rhys Mannion as John Lennon, Ellis Murphy as Paul McCartney, Harvey Brett as George Harrison, Louis Landau as Stu Sutcliffe, Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best, and Casper von Bülow as Klaus Voormann.
The series was created by showrunner Christian Schwochow, whose past credits include The Crown and Munich: The Edge of War, and head writer Jamie Carragher, known for his work on Succession. The show is inspired by Voormann's autobiography. Voormann, who designed the cover art for the Beatles' Revolver album, serves as an exclusive consultant to the production.
Hamburg Days is set in the early 1960s in the clubs of Hamburg's St. Pauli district, where the Beatles, still an inexperienced group of teenagers from Liverpool, encountered Voormann and Kirchherr. The series tracks the transformation from that scrappy young band into what the show's own description calls "the greatest music phenomenon the world has ever known."
The BBC holds rights in the United Kingdom and ZDF will screen the series in Germany. AGC International is handling worldwide sales in all other territories. Music for the series is being curated by David Holmes, known for his work on Killing Eve and the Ocean's franchise.
