Alright, here’s a trailer we’re much more excited about: Sam Taylor-Wood’s young John Lennon biopic “Nowhere Boy.” Or were excited anyhow…
Interestingly enough, there’s no Beatles or Lennon music in this one and the first song we hear is Jay Hawkins’ classic, “I Put A Spell On You,” though it does feature voice recordings of Lennon reflecting back on his childhood. But we must say it doesn’t look great and rather much like a conventional melodrama/em0-teeny bopper coming-of-age tale (lots of teen angst in here). Not sure what that final, indie-rock-ish song is at the end of the trailer (god, does everyone sound like the Arcade Fire now? ) but it’ll make some cringe and it’s pretty antithetical to anything John Lennon related.
“Nowhere Boy” stars Aaron Johnson (Lennon), Thomas Sangster (Paul McCartney), Kristen Scott Thomas (Lennon’s surrogate mother, his Aunt Mimi) David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff and it was written by Matt Greenhalgh, the screenwriter who penned the Ian Curtis/Joy Division biopic “Control.”
The film is playing the London Film Festival currently and we should have a review for you shortly. One of the first reviews that has hit is from TimeOutLondon, and they give it four out of five stars and say it’s, a “pleasing, invigorating success that sidesteps the music and the future to explore a moving and instructive story about the making of a young man.”
We’ve heard otherwise from a friend in New York that has seen it with their own eyes, but we’re still going in with an open mind and like anything, need to see it for ourselves to have a final opinion.
Don’t be surprised to find that instead of a release date at the end of this one it says, “coming soon,” which is pretty much a guarantee it’s not going to hit theaters in 2009. It’s a Weinstein Company film and it seems they’re not going to push it for Oscar this year, so that means they’ll bump it instead.
The poster looks great but the film looks very conventional! we'll see, I do want the poster!
How do you put together a trailer for a movie about John Lennon and include not one Beatles or solo John Lennon song? It's almost a crime to try and sell a movie about Lennon and have nothing about his music in there…
How do you not even have a string version of "Mother" playing in the background or even "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" or something of the like? It really is a pedestrian trailer.
I "imagine" that Yoko and the surviving lads did not give their blessings on this one.
The chap play Paul looks way too wimpy and does not have his star power. And the John lacks presence. All and all, I wanted Revolver for this film and it might just be a Magical Mystery Tour.
I think people are forgetting that this film is about John Lennon before he became John Lennon. The music that you hear is the music that a young boy/man John Lennon would have heard and been influenced by. I think the Director is trying to capture the person before he became an icon.
I'm-a let you finish NOWHERE BOY, but THE HOURS AND TIMES is the best film about John Lennon ever made!!
It's no "Backbeat."
Surprisingly, this looks pretty good to me, at least about as good as "Control" is, if not as good as "Control's" trailer is.
Kudos to the Anon who pointed out that this thing takes place before The Beatles were THE BEATLES, so having the band's biggest hits would probably be temporally confusing.
Agree with The Playlist though that this surely won't be out in 09 — saw Harvey busking on the streets of Boston just yesterday.
the last song is from Mike Bones "What I Have Left"
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