Asa Butterfield, Jonny Lee Miller and Christine Tremarco Join BBC Beatles Drama ‘Hamburg Days’

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Asa Butterfield, Jonny Lee Miller and Adolescence star Christine Tremarco have joined the upcoming six-part Beatles drama at the BBC.

Hamburg Days, created by The Crown‘s Christian Schwochow alongside head writer Jamie Carragher (Succession), is currently filming in Hamburg, where the band performed over 250 shows.

Sex Education alum Butterfield has joined the cast as Beatles manager Brian Epstein, while Miller (Trainspotting) will play Jim McCartney, father to Paul McCartney, and Tremarco John Lennon’s guardian Aunt Mimi.

More cast additions confirmed this week 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.

They join the previously announced Rhys Mannion as Lennon, Ellis Murphy as McCartney, Harvey Brett as George Harrison, Louis Landau as Stu Sutcliffe, Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best, and Casper von Bülow as Klaus Voormann.

Hamburg Days is set in the early 1960s in the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg’s St. Pauli red light district, where an inexperienced young rock ’n’ roll band from Liverpool collides with two young artists, Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr. Together, they help spark a transformation that turns a scrappy group of teenagers into the greatest music phenomenon the world has ever known.

W&B Television and Turbine Studios are producing the series with music curated by music producer David Holmes (Killing Eve). Hamburg Days was developed by Benjamin Benedict (Generation War) and is written by Jamie Carragher, who also serves as executive producer. Showrunner and executive producer Christian Schwochow is directing alongside Laura Lackmann (Call My Agent Berlin). Frank Lamm (Andor) serves as director of photography. Klaus Voormann is an exclusive consultant to the series.

The show will air in the U.K. on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. AGC International is handling worldwide sales outside the U.K. (BBC) and Germany (ZDF).