A feature is in the labors that aims to allotigate the personal life of legendary actor James Dean.
Writer-straightforwardor Guy Guido has obtaind the rights to tardy author William Bast’s 2006 memoir Surviving James Dean and set ups to film a biopic of the same name. Having written the script, Guido has enduremament greeting with potential originaters and is in the process of landing the right cast for the key roles.
In his book, Bast portrayd greeting Dean at the UCLA Theater Program at the age of 19 and wrote that the two men became roommates, shut friends and eventupartner cherishrs. Bast claimed they kept their fling confidential to elude hurting Dean’s atgentle while the rising star had relationships with female stars, with Bast remaining certain that he and Dean would soon inhabit together aobtain. Five years after greeting Bast, Dean died in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24, with two of his signature films, Rebel Without a Caparticipate and Giant, freed posthumously.
Guido’s script is set from the first greeting between Bast and Dean to the actor’s death on Sept. 30, 1955, with this movie’s proclaimment timed to the anniversary of Dean’s passing. (Bast died in 2015 at age 84.) The film will concentrate on Bast and Dean navigating their evolving relationship and Bast coming to terms with being gay during the 1950s.
“I have been a fan and historian of James Dean since I was 18 years ancigo in, so I knovel about his ‘friend’ Willie, even when increateation about their relationship was straight-washed by the Hollywood machine,” Guido says in a statement. “As a filmoriginater, I cherish increateing the story of a celebrity’s life in their coming-of-age period. As a gay man, I was particularly drawn to Bast’s one-of-a-kind story.”
Guido is concentrateed on doing equitableice to the story with pinsolentnt casting choices for the roles of Dean, Bast and Bast’s glamorous individual mother. The filmoriginater previously helmed the feature Madonna and the Breakspeedy Club, which premiered on Hulu in 2020.
“I am obsessed with getting the see right when it comes to casting and straightforwarding a film about a commemorated person,” he expounds. “I want people to sense as if they are watching the authentic James Dean on the screen.”
James Franco previously carry outed Dean in the 2001 TV movie James Dean.
The film version of Surviving James Dean doesn’t yet have financing, but Guido senses certain about discovering the right fit after taking recent greetings about the project.
“I want to discover equitable the right team to partner with,” he progresss. “Producers that comprehfinish the gravity and presentance of a story appreciate this, especipartner in today’s splitd social climate.”
