Brandon Flynn will play James Dean in a brand new biopic.
The 13 Causes Why actor has been forged because the late legendary star in Willie and Jimmy Dean, writer-director Man Guido’s upcoming movie, which is predicated on William Bast’s 2006 memoir Surviving James Dean, through which he alleged he had a love affair with the Hollywood icon on the College of California, Los Angeles.
Brandon, 31, has praised the script for humanising his character and exhibiting an understanding of who he actually was.
He informed The Hollywood Reporter: “James Dean is just like the recognized unknown. His brief life left behind simply three movies, a mountain of images and a cultural mythology we preserve attempting to decode. This script is an exquisite try at in truth understanding who he actually was — not simply the icon, however the man.
“It highlights how Hollywood has traditionally compelled LGBTQ individuals into efficiency, even of their private lives.
“This story dares to current James Dean as a person with actual, complicated relationships, and I feel there’s energy in that fact.”
The script is about from the primary assembly between the 2 males to James’ demise in September 1955 and Man is delighted to have Brandon on board.
He mentioned: “This isn’t a conventional biopic. It’s a young and generally tragic story about two younger males who discovered one another in a time and place the place being seen — actually seen — got here at a price. Brandon Flynn brings each the hearth and vulnerability this function calls for. I couldn’t think about anybody extra good to discover and play out the complexities of James Dean.”
The fimmaker, who spoke to William in 2011, 4 years earlier than his demise on the age of 84, beforehand informed how he felt “drawn” to the creator’s “distinctive story”.
He informed The Hollywood Reporter: “I’ve been a fan and historian of James Dean since I used to be 18 years outdated, so I knew about his ‘buddy’ Willie, even when details about their relationship was straight-washed by the Hollywood machine.
“As a filmmaker, I really like telling the story of a celeb’s life of their coming-of-age interval. As a homosexual man, I used to be notably drawn to Bast’s distinctive story.”
Within the ebook, William claimed he and the Hollywood legend turn into roommates, shut buddies and finally lovers throughout their time on the UCLA’s theatre programme when the pair have been 19.
The creator – who additionally wrote James Dean: A Biography in 1956 – claimed the fling was stored non-public in an effort to guard the actor’s flourishing Hollywood profession, although he hoped he might reunite along with his supposed forbidden lover at some point.
Nonetheless, the author’s dream of a relationship was cruelly taken away from him when the Insurgent With out a Trigger star died in a automotive accident on the age of 24 in 1955.
