- by Jason Gregory
- Saturday, July 19, 2008
- filed in: Pop
A new film about the early life of former Beatle John Lennon has been given a grant by the UK Film Council.
Nowhere Boy, which was written by Lennon’s half-sister, is being adapted for the big screen by Matt Greenhalgh.
Greenhalgh, who was responsible for the critically acclaimed Ian Curtis biopic Control, said Julia Baird’s book Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon had “illuminated” his image of the former Beatle.
"I could see the drama and film immediately - the women in his life, the men who weren't, the birth of rock and roll, all imposing on a brilliantly complicated adolescent mind," he said.
Nowhere Boy is one of seven films to be granted funding by the council. It will receive £35,500 of a £322,000 purse which is comprised of National Lottery money.
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