Matt Greenhalgh, the first-time feature-length screenwriter who penned the Ian Curtis/Joy Division biopic, “Control,” has been tapped to write “Lennon,” a film about the inimitable Beatle, John (maybe you heard of him). However, the film will follow the life of the young Liverpudlian before his Beatles days according to the Manchester Evening
News.
Greenhalgh was brought on board by ‘Lennon’ producers impressed with his “Control” script. The Mancunian told the paper, “The film is called Lennon and details John’s adolescent years, pre-Beatlemania. It came to me off the back of ‘Control’ – the producers of Lennon saw ‘Control’ and then asked me if I’d consider doing their script for them.”
“It wasn’t a particularly hard decision for me to say yes,” the still relatively green screenwriter said.
“Control” was celebrated at Cannes and and scooped two awards at the Edinburgh Film Festival this year. Greenhalgh is hoping to have the first draft of the film ready for Christmas, but the paper notes it would likely be another year until the film was ready for the big screen (geez, at least).
Let’s just say it, “Control” was very unremarkable.