Jonathan Rhys Meyers Is The Clash’s Joe Strummer In First Photo From LONDON TOWN

Here’s a first look at Jonathan Rhys Meyers as The Clash’s Joe Strummer in director Derrick Borte’s LONDON TOWN.

In 1970s London, a 14 year old boy is introduced to The Clash by his estranged mother and it changes his life forever.

Strummer died suddenly at age 50 on December 22, 2002 in his home at Broomfield in Somerset, England, from an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. Rolling Stone voted London Calling, the Clash’s classic 1980 album (released in 1979 in the UK) as the best album of the Eighties. Their 1982 song Should I Stay Or Should I Go was their biggest US hit.

The coming-of-age drama is written by Kirsten Sheridan, Sonya Gildea and Matt Brown (director of THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY) and produced by Tom Butterfield, Sofia Sondervan and Christine Vachon.

Daniel Huttlestone (INTO THE WOODS) also stars.

Radiant Films International and Cargo Entertainment are handling foreign rights to the film and are currently showing a new promo at AFM.