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Lennon's young life being made into a film

Update (11/19/08)
  • Actors are being sought for the roles of a teenage John Lennon and Paul McCartney, reports the Liverpool Echo. Filming is due to take place over eight weeks in March and April of 2009, some in and around Liverpool. Open auditions are set to take place in Liverpool Saturday. Contact nwb@ninagold.co.uk.

    Update (9/21/08)
  • An upcoming revelation from "Nowhere Boy," from the Sunday Herald: Julia lived around the corner and taught him George Formby songs on the ukelele. Looks like he and George had an appreciation of Formby in common.

    Update (8/30/08)

  • The movie has been given the go-ahead, reports the BBC and Billboard.com.

    Update (8/20/08)

  • This UK Telegraph story has a picture of actor Alan Swoffer in character as Lennon. Swoffer has previously played Lennon in the film "The Bank Job."

    (7/19/2008) John Lennon's childhood will be the subject of a movie now being written, reports the BBC and the UK Metro. "Nowhere Boy," the story of John's childhood growing up with his Aunt Mimi and based on the book "Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon" by his half-sister, Julia Baird, is being written by award-winning screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, the winner previously of a Bafta Award for "Control," the biofilm about Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The project, one ofseven projects given lottery-funded development grants by the UK Film Council, will be produced by Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae for Ecosse Films.

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