Kristin Scott Thomas will play John Lennon's aunt Mimi and Anne-Marie Duff has been cast as his mother Julia in Nowhere Boy, which charts Lennon's early years and his first steps towards stardom.

Kristin Scott Thomas will  play John Lennon's aunt Mimi and Anne-Marie Duff has been cast as his mother Julia in Nowhere Boy, which charts Lennon's early years and his first steps towards stardom. Lennon will be played by Aaron Johnston, who starred in Angus, Thongsand Perfect Snoggingand
features with Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon in The Greatest,which screened at
Sundance this week.

The screenplay is by Matt Greenhalgh, who wrote the Ian Curtis biopic Control.The film will be the first  feature directed by Sam Taylor- Wood, whose latest short , Love You More, is nominated for a Bafta next month. Nowhere Boystarts shooting in March on locations in Liverpool.