TRAILER: CHAPTER 27

Jared Leto gained over 65 pounds from simply eating chocolate ice cream non stop in preparation for his role as John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman, in the upcoming movie chronicling his descent into madness in the three days before committing the cold-blooded murder. He looks to have put in some amazing work on this movie, titled CHAPTER 27... so called because Chapman held a copy of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE when he killed Lennon, a book that Chapman modelled his life on and that ran only 26 chapters.

The movie played at the Sundance Film Festival last year and was not well received at all, with debut writer/director J.P. Schafer criticised for making a vanity project. The film failed to find a U.S. distributor at first and went straight to DVD in most countries but it's now been confirmed it will get a run in theatres in the U.S. this March after all. Lindsay Lohan co-stars as Jude, and in the most bizarre coincidence the person playing Lennon in the movie is called Mark Chapman. I think this movie looks really strong and Leto looks amazing...