The planned biopic focusing on James Dean’s personal life has landed its lead actor. Brandon Flynn, known for True Detective and 13 Reasons Why, has been cast as the late legendary actor in the ...

The feature film, entitled Willy and Jimmy Dean, is based on screenwriter William Bast’s 2006 memoir Surviving James Dean and will explore the gay romance between Bast and the Rebel Without a ...

In Surviving James Dean, Bast wrote that he and Dean — who died in a car accident at age 24 on Sept. 30, 1955 — met while attending UCLA's theater program when they were both 19. The memoir ...