Jean-Marc Vallee is directing a film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Universal Pictures has optioned Anthony McCarten’s script.
Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, Big Little Lies) is attached to direct and edit. He will also rewrite the screenplay alongside McCarten. Ono is producing the film.
Ono and Lennon met in 1966 at a London art gallery, where Ono was showing abstract art while the Beatles were four years into superstardom. Lennon asked Ono about her Painting to Hammer a Nail In piece, and if he could hammer a nail into the painting. She asked him to pay five shillings per nail, but the two then agreed that Lennon would pay imaginary money to hammer an imaginary nail.
Lennon and Ono wed in 1969 in Gibraltar, with the experience immortalized in the song The Ballad of John and Yoko, which was the Beatles’ final number one U.K. hit. The Beatles broke up in 1970 as each embarked on a solo career.
John Lennon-Yoko Ono Movie In The Works.
