Chapter 27
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hippie_chickAs we all know, filming is progressing on the indie film Chapter 27 starring Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman, the man who assasinated John Lennon on December 8, 1980. The film title alludes to the famed "missing chapter" of the J.D. Salinger novel Catcher In The Rye. Lindsay Lohan costars as a teen Lennon fan (a fictitious character in an otherwise 'based on a true story' type of film) who befriends Chapman on the weekend of the murder. Here's something I found on Yoko and the production:
"JOHN LENNON's widow YOKO ONO is being forced to watch the reenaction of her husband's murder on the doorstep of her New York City home, after failing to ban producers from filming new movie CHAPTER 27 at the location.
The Japanese singer/artist was horrified when Canadian company Peace Arch applied to film the movie, starring JARED LETO as Lennon's killer MARK DAVID CHAPMAN, outside the Dakota Building, where the rock legend was fatally shot in December 1980.
Her publicist KIP KOURI tells the New York Post, "Yoko immediately checked if the Dakota building had the right to refuse them filming the facade, and found out that legally, all they had to do was to get the permission of the city."
Source : femalefirst.co.uk.
I can't say as I really blame Yoko. At all.
A couple of photos gleaned from elsewhere on the net just to show Jared Leto's transformation. He is an actor that always impresses me... his screen presence is amazing.
Leto in character, holding copies of Double Fantasy and Catcher In The Rye. Also, on location, with Lindsay Lohan.
Artistic freedom is what it's all about, and one shouldn't censor or silence. But there's also a part of me that is yes, bothered. John Lennon meant alot to me, and I really wouldn't feel comfortable watching a "dramatization" of events that unfolded on December 8 1980 and that to this day still shake me to the core. As the film makers have their freedom to progress with this project, we have the freedom to choose to see or not to see this film when released to theaters.
"JOHN LENNON's widow YOKO ONO is being forced to watch the reenaction of her husband's murder on the doorstep of her New York City home, after failing to ban producers from filming new movie CHAPTER 27 at the location.
The Japanese singer/artist was horrified when Canadian company Peace Arch applied to film the movie, starring JARED LETO as Lennon's killer MARK DAVID CHAPMAN, outside the Dakota Building, where the rock legend was fatally shot in December 1980.
Her publicist KIP KOURI tells the New York Post, "Yoko immediately checked if the Dakota building had the right to refuse them filming the facade, and found out that legally, all they had to do was to get the permission of the city."
Source : femalefirst.co.uk.
I can't say as I really blame Yoko. At all.
A couple of photos gleaned from elsewhere on the net just to show Jared Leto's transformation. He is an actor that always impresses me... his screen presence is amazing.
Leto in character, holding copies of Double Fantasy and Catcher In The Rye. Also, on location, with Lindsay Lohan.
Artistic freedom is what it's all about, and one shouldn't censor or silence. But there's also a part of me that is yes, bothered. John Lennon meant alot to me, and I really wouldn't feel comfortable watching a "dramatization" of events that unfolded on December 8 1980 and that to this day still shake me to the core. As the film makers have their freedom to progress with this project, we have the freedom to choose to see or not to see this film when released to theaters.
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Date: 2006-01-22 07:57 pm (UTC)Isn't it bad enough Biography channels profile Chapman, do we have to do a movie about it? And one that will no doubt be awful.