A feature is in the works that aims to explore the personal life of legendary actor James Dean, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Writer-director Guy Guido has acquired the rights to late author William Bast’s 2006 memoir Surviving James Dean and plans to film a biopic of the same name. Having written the script, Guido has begun meeting with potential producers and is in the process of landing the right cast for the key roles.
In his book, Bast described meeting Dean at the UCLA theater program at the age of 19 and wrote that the two men became roommates, close friends and eventually lovers. Bast claimed they kept their fling private to avoid hurting Dean’s career while the rising star had relationships with female stars, with Bast remaining hopeful that he and Dean would soon live together again. Five years after meeting Bast, Dean died in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24, with two of his signature films, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, released posthumously.
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