Former WHO star Eccleston to play John Lennon

Variety is reporting that former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccelston will portray the young John Lennon in Naked Lennon, a BBC Four biopic. Eccleston isn't the only Who-niverse star who will appear in the film; Torchwood's Naoko Mori will co-star as Yoko Ono.

This casting strikes me as sort of bizarre. If you squint Eccleston bears a vague resemblance to Lennon during one of the troubled Beatle's more gaunt periods, but Eccleston is in his mid-forties and frankly looks it, while this film would be following Lennon in his late twenties and early thirties. I suppose Eccelston has a bit of the young Lennon's smart-alecky, pugnacious quality, but this role will definitely be a stretch.

The article reports that the film will air in the UK next year.

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