More About Jarrett Shaeffer.The Man Responsible for Chapter 27 & Where He Came From & It's Importance In Beatles History.

Fellow People

I learned something about Jarrett Shaeffer that really surprised me. I figured that I would share it with all of you.

Jarrett Shaeffer is from Landstuhl,Germany. He graduated from the film writing program at USC is 2001.

I only bring this up because I am part German in my own right. My mother hails from the city of Berlin. She emigrated to the USA after she married my father in 1956.

I am also a tad bit ashamed that this guy came from that country. I am part German myself and this guy hails from that country.

Germany also holds some importance for The Beatles. It was in the racy city of Hamburg in the early 1960's where the Fab Four learned how to be REAL professionals and it is also where they did their first professional recordings. They backed up Tony Sheridan in a German recording studio and those sessions produced the legendary My Bonnie record and the later Top 20 hit Ain't She Sweet,which John sang lead on. The Beatles performed at the German night club called Kaiserkeller,which was near the Reeperbahn district before moving on to a club called The Top 10,which was where they met Sheridan and the rest was history.The Fab Four would also perform at another place called The Star Club where they made their first live recordings and where future permanent drummer Ringo Starr(real name Richard Starkey) would sit in for Pete Best when those recordings were made. They would later be released on record many times on many different reissue labels starting in 1977 when Lingasong Records first released them.

The early years of the Fabs are further illustrated in the movie Backbeat that starred Ian Hart giving the performance of his career as John Lennon and Stephen Dorff as Stuart Sutcliffe. The movie is about those years when they did get their first professional experiences in Hamburg even though it does focus mainly on the friendship between John & Stu. It is still a very good movie and one I whole heartedly recommend for any Beatles or Lennon fans out there. It will be one of those films that I will watch during the week of the Sundance Film Festival alongside other Beatles films that I have to honor John Lennon.

Again, The man who is making this film hails from that country and it's hard to believe that the fans in Germany are not crying FOUL at this. I am crying FOUL at the moment because I am not only part German but I am a Beatles and Lennon fan and that country was what helped them in their quest for stardom.

Just some random words here regarding what I learned and it's importance.Take Care and I hope that all of you have a wonderful evening.

UPDATE: Variety 1/17/07 .. additional facts about the "person" with the most to gain from the murder of JOHN LENNON. Writer and Director of Chapter 27.

Taking on the true story of a hero to millions is pressure enough for a first-time director. Getting inside the head of the man who killed him is a whole other story. But that's the challenge Jarrett Schafer took on with his first feature, "Chapter 27," a story of the days leading up to the 1980 assassination of John Lennon, told from the perspective of his killer, Mark David Chapman.
Born on an Air Force base in Germany but raised in the U.S., Schaefer studied filmic writing at USC. After graduating, he worked as an editor at Fade In magazine and as a videostore clerk while writing scripts and poetry in his spare time.

Like Chapman, Schaefer is an ardent fan of both the Beatles and J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye," and says he began the script to try to understand "how someone could be inspired to kill anyone as a result of being exposed to this kind of beautiful art. It really bothered me, because Lennon and Salinger have always made me feel so much better, and so much less alone."

The script took Schaefer four years to write, but once it was finished, the film came together quickly. With the help of producers Alexandra Milchan and Bob Salerno, Schaefer cast Jared Leto as Chapman and Lindsay Lohan as Jude, a fellow Lennon fanatic who befriends Chapman.

Says Salerno, "Writing the script and researching the events extensively gave Jarrett a deeper understanding of the material, and a comfort as a first time director to take more risks in the way he wanted to shoot this story."

Pic was shot on location in New York last year. "I don't have much to compare it to, but the challenges were daunting," says Schaefer, who directed several sequences outside the Dakota, the site of Lennon's assassination. "I had to go into a place that was very sensitive to our story, with trucks, a crew, and a limited amount of time. It wasn't easy."

"It was important to Jarrett that we didn't glorify this event," says Salerno. "He didn't want to shoot any of the scenes with John Lennon at the Dakota out of respect for the residents that were there at the time John was killed, so all of that footage was shot separately at another location that we were able keep closed and controlled."

Schaefer is currently developing several new feature ideas. His USC thesis script, "The Hidden Alice," will be directed by helmer Bronwen Hughes ("Stander").

"Jarrett is someone that I am sure will be most content to take on difficult subject matter in the future and find his own original way in," adds Salerno.

VITAL STATS
Age: 27
Provenance: Landstuhl, Germany
Inspired by: "D.A. Pennebaker, because he makes great films about rock 'n' roll; 'A Hard Day's Night,' because it captured Beatlemania better than anything else; and 'The Wizard of Oz.' "
Reps: Agent, Craig Kestel, William Morris; manager, Brand Mendelsohn, Industry Entertainment; attorney, Adam Kaller, Behr Abramson Kaller

F....Jackie and Studdering John

Hiiii Fred...
Fred Eric your a huge Lennon fan, help us stop this disaster.