Cameras are officially rolling on Hamburg Days , a prestige drama series chronicling the early years of The Beatles .

W&B Television, Turbine Studios, and co-financier AGC Television have announced who will be playing the Liverpool legends in the six-part drama, which is backed by German network ZDF and has been acquired by the BBC.

The biopic is based on Klaus Voormann’s book of the same name. Voormann, a musician and artist, was a close companion of the band in the early 1960s. He lived with Ringo Starr and George Harrison and designed the cover of the Beatles album Revolver .

Hamburg Days will star Rhys Mannion ( It Is In Us All ) as John Lennon, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Ellis Murphy as Paul McCartney, newcomer Harvey Brett as George Harrison, Louis Landau ( Rivals ) as Stu Sutcliffe, newcomer Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best, Luna Jordan ( Wild Republic ) as Astrid Kirchherr, Casper von Bülow ( Druck ) as Klaus Voorman, Laura Tonke ( 22 Lenghts ) as Nielsa Kirchherr, Trystan Pütter ( Ku’damm 56-63…