13 Reasons Why‘s Brandon Flynn has been tapped to play the late James Dean.
The 31-year-old True Detective actor will star in Willie and Jimmy Dean, the new film based on William Bast’s 2006 memoir, “Surviving James Dean” from writer/director Guy Guido, THR reports.
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The book alleges that the pair met at the UCLA theater school and eventually became lovers. Bast claimed they kept their relationship a secret as to not hurt James Dean‘s career.
Brandon said in a statement, “James Dean is like the known unknown. His short life left behind just three films, a mountain of photographs and a cultural mythology we keep trying to decode. This script is a beautiful attempt at truthfully understanding who he really was — not just the icon, but the man.”
“This is not a traditional biopic,” Guy said of the project. “It’s a tender and sometimes tragic story about two young men who found each other in a time and place where being seen — truly seen — came at a cost. Brandon Flynn brings both the fire and vulnerability this role demands. I couldn’t imagine anyone more perfect to explore and play out the complexities of James Dean.”
If you don’t know, James Dean died in a car accident at the age of 24 in 1955.
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Source: justjared.com