Nowhere Boy is being developed as a stage musical.
Producers Brian Lee and Dayna Bloom, who secured the rights of the John Lennon biopic, announced the news Monday. The 2009 feature was based on a biography written by Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird.
“We’ve just secured the rights of the film,” Lee said, “and as a team we’ll be traveling to London this summer, trying to figure out the right person to bring this narrative to life.”
The story focuses on Lennon’s adolescence in Liverpool and the two women who played pivotal roles in his life: his mother Julia Lennon, who abandoned him and Julia’s older sister Mimi Smith, who raised Lennon and remained close to him until he was assassinated in 1980. It also covers his earliest collaborations with Paul McCartney.
According to Deadline, Lee and Bloom are targeting a UK premiere for Nowhere Boy “in the next few years.”
