Nov 7, 2005 • 1 min read

New movie based round Lennon murder

An independent film about John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman, titled 'Chapter 27', starring Jared Leto and Lindsay Lohan, goes into production early next year.

A new independent movie based around the murder of John Lennon is to go into production at the start of next year and will star Lindsay Lohan (you know her - she released a single if I remember rightly) and Jared Leto (never released a single, as far as I'm aware, but definitely has his own, allegedly not very good, band). Leto plays Lennon's killer Mark Chapman whilst Lohan plays a fictional character, a Lennon fan who befriends Chapman.

The film entitled 'Chapter 27', is described by producers as a 'psychological study' of Chapman, adding that the character of Lennon himself wil have only a small screen presence in the film, which seeks to explore the motivation behind the killing. The film's title is said to refer to the 26 chapters in Salinger's 'The Catcher In The Rye', which Chapman famously cited as his motivation for killing Lennon.

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