Apple TV+ introduced a brand new three-part documentary collection delving into the 1980 homicide of late Beatle John Lennon. With narration from 24 star Kiefer Sutherland, John Lennon: Homicide With out a Trial guarantees to current unique eyewitness interviews and beforehand unseen crime scene images that can shed “new gentle on the life and homicide” of the rock icon, in addition to the investigation and conviction of his confessed killer, Mark David Chapman.
A launch saying the collection says it’s “essentially the most completely researched examination of John Lennon’s 1980 homicide, which shocked and saddened the world.” The manufacturing was reportedly given in depth Freedom of Data Act requests from the New York Metropolis Police Division, the Board of Parole and the District Lawyer’s workplace and options “unique interviews with eyewitnesses — talking for the primary time — together with a few of Lennon’s closest buddies, revealing surprising particulars of Lennon’s tragic homicide.” The collection can even function interviews with Chapman’s protection legal professionals, psychiatrists, detectives and prosecutors.
The present was directed by Nick Holt (Accountable Youngster) and Rob Coldstream (Jade: The Actuality Star Who Modified Britain) and produced by Apple TV+ and 72 Movies. At press time a launch date for the collection had not been introduced. Lennon’s killing has beforehand been the topic of a variety of movies, together with 2007 biographical drama Chapter 27 starring Jared Leto.
Lennon was shot and killed on Dec. 8, 1980 outdoors his New York house constructing, the Dakota, by Chapman, a disturbed Beatles fan who mentioned he was impressed to homicide the beloved musician by the hypocrisy-hating fictional misanthrope Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger’s iconic 1951 novel The Catcher within the Rye. Chapman was convicted of second-degree homicide and sentenced to twenty years to life in jail; he grew to become eligible for parole in 2000 and has been denied launch 12 occasions since.
The information of the docuseries got here simply days earlier than the discharge of what has been dubbed the the final-ever Beatles music, “Now and Then,” which is able to drop on Thursday (Nov. 2), adopted on Friday (Nov. 3) by a Peter Jackson-directed music video that includes beforehand unseen footage of the Fab 4. “Now and Then” is the ultimate music written by Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and it was completed by dwelling members McCartney and Starr greater than 40 years after the group started work on it.
The double A-side single can even embrace a touching throwback with the inclusion of the band’s 1962 debut single, “Love Me Do,” that includes the unique cowl artwork shot by Ed Ruscha.