Washington, Sept. 1 (ANI): Film director Matt Greenhalgh has confirmed that a documentary featuring the early years of late Beatle John Lennon's life is being made.

The film has been titled Lennon, and it will talk about the time when The Beatles were not a famous band, he says.

"The film is called Lennon and details John's adolescent years, pre-Beatlemania," Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

Greenhalgh also revealed that he bagged the project after the producers of Lennon watched his latest film Control, which features the personal, professional and romantic troubles that led Joy Division singer Ian Curtis to commit suicide at the age of 23.

"It came to me off the back of Control - the producers of Lennon saw Control, and then asked me if I'd consider doing the script for them. It wasn't a particularly hard decision for me to say yes," he said.

The director is well known for working on a number of UK TV series including Burn It, Cold Feet, Hollyoaks and Queer as Folk. He was nominated for Best New Writer Bafta TV Award for his work on the scripts of BBC drama Clocking Off. (ANI)