By Filmmaker Guy Guido (“Madonna and the Breakfast Club”) has acquired the rights to late author William Bast’s 2006 memoir “Surviving James Dean” with plans to adapt the film into a biopic of the same name.
Guido has already written the script and has begun meeting with potential producers along with trying to land the right cast for the key roles of Bast, Dean and Bast’s mother.
19-year-old Bast claims he met Dean at the UCLA theater program with the two men becoming roommates, close friends and eventually lovers.
Bast says they kept their fling private to avoid hurting Dean’s career while the rising star had relationships with female stars – Bast hopeful that he and Dean would soon live together again.
Five years after meeting, Dean died in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24. Dean only had three credited roles before his passing – “East of Eden,” “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant”.
Guido’s script starts with first meeting between Bast and Dean and carries through to the actor’s death on September 30th 1955. It will deal with the evolving relationship and Bast coming to terms with being gay during the 1950s.
Source: THR
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