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Christopher Eccleston to Play John Lennon

November 29, 2009

Christopher Eccleston (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, "Doctor Who") will play John Lennon in BBC Four's upcoming "Naked Lennon," reports Variety.

The film highlights the years from 1967 to 1971 when the Beatle was ending his first marriage to Cynthia as Yoko Ono entered his life, coping with the death of manager Brian Epstein and the group's own messy and acrimonious disintegration.

Naoko Mori ("Torchwood") will play Ono and Rory Kinnear has been cast as Epstein. Other cast members include Claudie Blakley as Cynthia Lennon and Andrew Scott as Paul McCartney.

"Lennon Naked" was written by Robert Jones, the co-creator of BBC TV drama "Party Animals."

COMMENTS (8)

Posted by:

King

November 30, 2009

Boring

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GuanoLad

November 30, 2009

Err... Chris Eccleston is currently older than John Lennon was when he died.

A 45 year old playing a 30 year old? Not so sure that's such a good plan.

Posted by:

SlappyMcGee

November 30, 2009

Naked Lennon or Lennon Naked? Noth suck, but lets pick one.

Posted by:

WCB

November 30, 2009

Good choice. I think he'll pull it off rather nicely.

Posted by:

rizad

November 30, 2009

Nice after two feature film playing a bad guy,we see him as nice guy.Its also nice to see usual people playing villain then turns around as a good guy like next year William Dafoe and Sean Bean while the good guy then for once is a villain like Sam Neil.Then again not if MORGAN FREEMAN is playing a bad guy.

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FVD

November 30, 2009

It oughta be called "Lennon Be, Naked."

Posted by:

Shadowcat

November 30, 2009

I loved Christopher Eccleston as the 9th Doctor. Naoko Mori was fantastic as Tosh in Torchwood and she has a resemblance to Yoko Ono. Sine I live in the US, I will purchase this from Amazon UK when it is released.

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J Master

December 9, 2009

If by "resemblence" you mean "1000x better looking on her worst day than Ono was on her best", yes...

Tosh was hot. Yoko's not.