Beatles

The dysfunctional teenage life of John Lennon will be portrayed in a new film currently shooting in Liverpool.

Nowhere Boy will tell the story of the complex relationship John Lennon had with his mother Julia and his Aunt Mimi.

Hollywood star Kristin Scott-Thomas plays Lennon’s Aunt Mimi who brought him up in suburban Woolton.

The film covers the years 1955-58 when Lennon was aged 15-18, the role of Lennon is taken by Aaron Johnson and his mother Julia is played by Shameless actress Anne-Marie Duff.

Producer Robert Bernstein

Lennon was raised by his Aunt Mimi, while his mother Julia lived elsewhere visiting Lennon at Mimi’s home ‘Mendips’ on Menlove Avenue.

“It’s an interesting love triangle in a way,” producer Robert Bernstein told BBC North West Tonight.

“It’s a very unusual story and it sort of clarifies how John Lennon came to be the guy we know.

“It’s a rite of passage for John via the relationship with these two women

“It’s quite a revealing story about his early life and Paul McCartney comes in to it as well so you get a sense of the beginning of the song writing relationship between Paul and John and obviously the Quarrymen were the prototypes of the Beatles.”

The film is partly based on the book Imagine This by Lennon’s half sister Julia Baird and has been written by Matt Greenhalgh whose screenplay for Control won the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award in 2007.