Starr said he gave "extensive notes" to director Mendes while fact-checking the scripts. The scenes in particular that depicted Starr's family and his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett (whose casting has not yet been announced), were among the sequences that Starr urged to have reworked.

Ringo Starr had some notes for Beatles biopic director Sam Mendes after reading his film's script: 'That’s not how we were. I’d say, 'We would never do that.''

The Beatle met with the director and gave feedback pertaining to scenes with his family and marriage to first wife Maureen Starkey Tigrett