Nowhere Boy/Lennon movie

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LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - The story of John Lennon is headed for the big screen with "Nowhere Boy," which will focus on the former Beatle's troubled adolescence.

Screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh's script details the story of Lennon as a lonely teenager abandoned by his mother and raised by his authoritarian aunt. His only escape is music, art and his fateful friendship with Paul McCartney. The film will be directed by visual artist Sam Taylor-Wood, who will shoot on location in Lennon's hometown of Liverpool.

"The women in John's early life truly shaped who he became," Taylor-Wood said, "and the strengths and weaknesses of their relationships are central to this film."

Casting for the major roles "is under way," said producer Ecosse Films, which is developing the project with the U.K. Film Council.

Should be interesting.

[pledm]

Just one more pic I found for that time period,just wondering who will play the young john and paul.

[Summer]

This is definately a movie that I want to see. Hopefully I will get to watch it with my daughter Lizz who is a huge Beatles fan.

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An update on the movie

Pictured: Kristin Scott Thomas transforms into John Lennon's Aunt Mimi for latest role


Relative roles: Kristin Scott Thomas as Aunt Mimi with Aaron Johnson playing John Lennon, and below, their real counterparts



Looking businesslike in black, and with a dash of red lipstick, this is Kristin Scott Thomas as John Lennon's aunt Mimi.

The 48-year-old actress, best known for her roles as upper class ladies in films such as The English Patient, plays the formidable Liverpudlian who famously raised the young Beatle after his mother gave him up when he was five.

Miss Scott Thomas is pictured on the set of the film Nowhere Boy in Liverpool with Aaron Johnson, 18, who plays Lennon.

The movie, which also stars Anne-Marie Duff as Lennon's mother Julia, traces the early days of the singer's rise to stardom in The Quarrymen.

Director Sam Taylor-Wood said: 'Mimi was strict and very proper, but she knew how to enjoy a joke, and Julia was the sister who was what today we'd call laid back.

'She was a bit bohemian and didn't take things as seriously as Mimi.

'It's the clash of these two different psychological forces that was to shape the man who would become John Lennon.'

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Update more stills from movie;

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Here`s a 1st look at the movie; ;D

[Bob]

I so want to see this film!!!! Thank you for posting all those great photos Pledm!