The upcoming Universal Pictures biopic surrounding the lives of former Beatles musician John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono has signed on Jean-Marc Vallee to direct and rewrite the screenplay, according to Variety.
The other story is that Ono was compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on and when front member Paul McCartney declined, Lennon obliged.
Vallee will rewrite the script alongside McCarten and is attached to direct and edit the film, with Ono set to produce alongside de Luca, Immersive’s Josh Bratman and McCarten, with Vallee also producing with his partner Nathan Ross through their company, Crazyrose.
Universal first attempted to option the rights to the script, written by Ono and Anthony McCarten (The Darkest Hour, Bohemian Rhapsody) and being produced by Michael de Luca Productions and Immersive Pictures, and are currently in final negotiations to acquire it.