Yoko Ono has reportedly tried to stop a scene that appears in the Jared Leto-Lindsay Lohan movie being made about John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman. Despite her attempts, the killing scene was reinacted at the location where the real murder took place -- outside her front door.
The former Beatle's widow wanted to prevent the film crew replicating the murder on the sidewalk in front of the Dakota building for the film "Chapter 27" but found she could not legally do so.
Stephen Spiro, the first police officer at the scene of the 1981 tragedy said, "I think that after 25 years, let it be." The retired officer added that he found the movie, "in poor taste" and expressed his sympathies for Ono. "It's a massacre. Horrible, horrible. That's why Chapman killed Lennon. So he could be famous."
On December 8th, 1980, John and Yoko were just returning to their home in The Dakota, located at 1 West 72nd Street in Manhattan, when John, turning after he heard someone call out his name, was shot five times in the back with a .38 by Chapman. The movie, "Chapter 27" is due out in 2007.
Comments
Is it called Chapter 27 or Chapter 23? In the above notice citing Yoko's objections, both names were used. There aren't TWO movies are there? Any Lennon fans know what the name "Chapter Twenty-whatever" is in reference to?
Posted by: Erin | January 30, 2006 8:44 AM
I corrected the error. my bad - thanks
Posted by: Fara | January 30, 2006 3:32 PM
Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J.D. Salinger which has 26 chapters. A novel which Mark David Chapman, lennons killer, was "obsessed" with. Chapter 27 could be thought of as being written by Mark David Chapman.
Posted by: poopsie bananabuns | February 12, 2006 11:23 PM