Timothée Chalamet is touring again to the early Nineteen Sixties to painting Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Full Unknown,” which is able to chronicle the music legend’s arrival to New York from Minnesota and his emergence in and disruption of the Greenwich Village folks scene. Photographs of Chalamet draped in ’60s garb through the manufacturing of the film have gone viral on-line, regardless of the discharge date for the Dylan movie remaining an entire unknown. What is thought is most of the supporting forged members, together with Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Money and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax. Dylan himself can be apparently concerned behind the scenes, as Mangold revealed he personally annotated the script and has been supportive of the movie.

Whereas no offers are set in stone but, “The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White is in talks to play Bruce Springsteen in a film concerning the making of “Nebraska,” the stripped-down 1982 album that marked a brand new creative course for the Boss. Springsteen recorded “Nebraska” on four-track cassette in his New Jersey bed room a number of years earlier than he and the E Avenue Band would launch the landmark “Born in the united statesA.” The movie relies on (and shares a title with) Warren Zanes’ 2023 guide “Ship Me From Nowhere,” and it hails from producers Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein of the Gotham Group. A24 can be in talks to board the venture, and Scott Stuber, in his first main movie venture since leaving his publish as head of movie at Netflix, has joined as a producer.

Selena Gomez is about to painting Linda Ronstadt in a biopic directed by David O. Russell. The music film is at present in pre-production, with producers together with James Keach, who produced the 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” and Ronstadt’s supervisor, John Boylan. Gomez, whose appearing credit embody “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “Solely Murders within the Constructing,” teased the function on Instagram by posting a photograph of the country-rock legend and 11-time Grammy winner’s 2013 memoir “Easy Goals.” No different casting has been introduced.

Sam Mendes has launched into the lengthy and winding highway to telling the epic story of the Beatles — in 4 separate biopics set for launch in 2027. Every film can be informed from a distinct Beatle’s standpoint, however it’s unclear by which order the Paul, John, George and Ringo movies can be launched. The films, from Sony Photos and the Oscar-nominated director of “American Magnificence” and “1917,” will intersect to “inform the astonishing story of the best band in historical past.” Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the households of the late John Lennon and George Harrison have granted full life story and music rights for the scripted movies, so we will count on a soundtrack of the band’s best songs. No casting has been introduced, however Selection has a number of concepts for who ought to painting the Fab 4.

Sebastian Stan is taking part in younger Donald Trump in a film titled “The Apprentice” from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”). The forged additionally contains “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Sturdy as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. In response to the logline, the movie is “an exploration of energy and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Full of bigger than life characters, it reveals the ethical and human value of a tradition outlined by winners and losers.”

After taking part in Richard Simmons in an unrelated Sundance quick movie titled “The Court docket Jester,” Pauly Shore will reprise the function of the health icon in a feature-length biopic from Warner Bros. subsidiary The Wolper Group. Simply hours after the movie was introduced, the reclusive Simmons disavowed the venture on Fb, writing, “I’ve by no means given my permission for this film. So don’t imagine all the pieces you learn.” Nonetheless, the staff behind the film insists, “We respect his need to privateness and plan to provide a film that honors him, celebrates him and tells a dramatic story.” Extra casting for the film is underway.

Jaafar Jackson is portraying his uncle Michael Jackson in Lionsgate‘s upcoming biopic “Michael,” directed by Antoine Fuqua. The biopic is predicted to depict the sophisticated legacy of the person who turned often known as the King of Pop. In response to the studio, the movie will discover all elements of his life, “together with his most iconic performances that led him to turn out to be the best entertainer of all time.” The movie is being made with the cooperation of the Michael Jackson property. The supporting forged contains Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson, Nia Lengthy as Katherine Jackson, Miles Teller as John Branca and Kat Graham as Diana Ross, amongst others.

An Elon Musk biopic is in improvement at A24 with Darren Aronofsky on board to direct. Walter Isaacson’s licensed biography of the controversial tech mogul, printed in September 2023, is serving as the idea for the screenplay. Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” guide was beforehand tailored into the 2015 Common movie of the identical title, starring Michael Fassbender because the Apple CEO. Musk addressed the news on X when it was introduced by writing in response: “Glad Darren is doing it. He is among the finest.”

Angelina Jolie is reworking into legendary opera singer Maria Callas within the newest biopic from “Jackie” and “Spencer” director Pablo Larraín. The film will “discover the lifetime of the legendary, iconic and controversial singer, usually described as the unique diva,” in accordance with its official description. “Based mostly on true accounts, ‘Maria’ tells the tumultuous, stunning and tragic story of the lifetime of the world’s best opera singer, relived and re-imagined throughout her remaining days in Seventies Paris.”

Jolie’s costumes can be primarily based on actual clothes worn by Callas, together with classic fur gadgets from Massimo Cantini Parrini’s archive assortment, on which the crew consulted with PETA with a view to not use any new fur.

Daisy Edgar-Jones is taking part in Carole King in Sony’s upcoming movie adaptation of the stage musical “Stunning.” The “Regular Individuals” star and upcoming “Twisters” actor is acquainted to Sony, having starred within the studio’s field workplace winner “The place the Crawdads Sing.” She can be directed in “Stunning” by Academy Award nominee Lisa Cholodenko (“The Children Are All Proper”). Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, who co-wrote “Children Are All Proper” collectively, are behind the script.

“Daisy has a spirit and vitality that I acknowledged as myself after I was youthful. She’s an incredible expertise and I do know she’s going to offer an incredible efficiency,” King informed Selection.

“Spider-Man” star Tom Holland has lengthy been hooked up to a biopic on the legendary actor, dancer and singer Fred Astaire for Sony Photos, the studio the place Holland has made a reputation for herself because the world’s most iconic web-slinger. The actor is already a educated faucet dancer.

“Fred Astaire does have a really explicit fashion,” Holland informed Selection shortly after the venture was first introduced. “‘Billy Elliot’ was very a lot a sort of like scuffy boot sort of faucet dancer whereas he’s very elegant and swish so I’ll most likely must learn to try this. However it’s one thing I’m gonna observe, one thing I’m very excited for and I believe it will likely be a implausible movie.”

Billy Porter is making ready to painting the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin in an upcoming biopic. He can even co-write the untitled film with Dan McCabe, which can be tailored from the 1994 guide “James Baldwin: A Biography” by David Leeming. An emeritus professor of English on the College of Connecticut, Leeming was well-versed on the earth of Baldwin as his good friend of 25 years in addition to his assistant.

Porter says it has been a career-long dream to inform the story of Baldwin on movie. Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin was a Black homosexual author whose influential works embody “Go Inform It on the Mountain,” “Notes of a Native Son” and “If Beale Avenue Might Speak.” Along with writing, Baldwin fought for racial justice within the U.S. civil rights motion. In Leeming’s guide, he’s described as a “complicated, troubled, pushed and sensible man” who has a “present for compassion and love.”

Starring “Trade” actor Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (“Nowhere Boy,” “Fifty Shades of Gray”), the upcoming music biopic “Again to Black” tracks profession highs and lows of the music icon.

“‘Again to Black’ is a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the discharge of her groundbreaking studio album, ‘Again to Black,” the logline reads. “Instructed from Amy’s perspective, the movie is an unapologetic take a look at the girl behind the phenomenon and the connection that impressed one of the legendary albums of all time.”

“Barbie” and “Clear” star Hari Nef is taking part in Andy Warhol celebrity Sweet Darling in a biopic directed by Zachary Drucker. John Cameron Mitchell can be hooked up to the untitled movie concerning the transgender icon as government producer. The movie traces Darling’s childhood in Lengthy Island by means of her years alongside underground icons Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis in Warhol’s Manufacturing unit scene, and her affect on musicians together with Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground and Patti Smith. She was immortalized in in style songs together with Reed’s “Stroll on the Wild Aspect” and The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Says.”

Oscar nominee Colman Domingo can be starring because the legendary singer Nat King Cole in a film musical from a script he co-wrote. He can even be making his characteristic directing debut on the venture. This isn’t Domingo’s first rodeo with Cole, as he co-wrote the play “Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole” with Patricia McGregor that premiered on the Geffen Playhouse. That interpretation imagines what may need been going by means of the singer’s thoughts throughout his 1957 Christmas particular on “The Nat King Cole Present,” the primary community program hosted by an African American.

“I’ve been engaged on it quietly for a number of years,” Domingo mentioned throughout a Selection Awards Circuit Podcast episode earlier this yr. “It’s one thing I’m wanting ahead to placing along with some nice companions.”