John Lennon, The Movie

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Entitled Nowhere Boy, the film has been awarded funding by the UK Film Council and will be written by Michael Greenhalgh, producer of Control, the the critically acclaimed biopic about Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.

According to the Guardian, the Lennon film will feature the story of the late Beatle’s childhood years in Liverpool, where he was raised by his Aunt Mimi after his mother Julia perished in an accident involving a police car. 

The movie will be based upon a controversial book entitled Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon, written by Lennon's sister, also called Julia.

Greenhalgh, the recipient of an honor for extraordinary accomplishment by the director of a debut feature for his work on Control, said he didn’t plan to make another music movie after Control, but couldn’t resist the appeal of a film about Lennon. 

The director said, "When looking for my next project I was wary of musical protagonists - but when John Lennon was floated, that vanished.

"He is beyond music; above it even. And his early life as told in Julia's book took me into a world that illuminated so much about this legendary genius. I could see the drama and film immediately. The women in his life, the men who weren't, the birth of rock n roll; all imposing on a brilliantly complicated adolescent mind. 

"The nagging questions, the icy secrets, the need for love. John's angst and anger pouring out into his music, his thankful salvation. Without this story we would never have heard The Beatles - can you imagine that?" 

Nowhere Boy, one of seven movies to be given funding by the council, will be awarded £35,500 of a £322,000 purse consisting of National Lottery money.