Imagine the damage Ed Wood could do with this if he was still around…
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Glad a white man finally gets a chance to shine, even given his moderate handicap.
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kind of shocked to learn that Dean only made 3 movies before he died. Who knew. Guess i should netflix those or something.
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He died in September 1955, which is 64 years ago.
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Agreed.
What this really means is that all the living actors turned down the script and they were desperate.
It has marketing gimmick written all over it
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So by the time he would have been able to make a film about Vietnam, he would be about as old as he played in the last half of the film Giant (my vote for his best role)
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He had the “advantage” of dying young, so he remains young.
It can be weird. Jack Kerouac died fifty years ago last month. He was 47. But he was born the year before my mother, hard to imagine a Beat being so old.
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Indeed, though it does happen.
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this sounds more like they need a new casting director than an actor. there’s gotta be plenty of actors in the world who could play this part.
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I have a feeling this is more about creating buzz and maybe saving money. It’s not like there’s a dearth of talented actors out there that aren’t, you know, dead.
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Fuck it. If they’re gonna go forward with this and set the precedent and all, then I say: BRING BACK BELA LUGOSI NOW!
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Yep, they’re all worth checking out. “East of Eden”, “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant”. My favorite was “East of Eden”. If you watch “Giant” look for a young Dennis Hopper.
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Yep! And he’s in “Rebel” too.
Or wait – IS he in “Giant”?
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Yes. Hopper plays Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor’s grown son. In fact I think its the back of his head in the picture I posted of James Dean in age makeup.
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Most news-outlet headlines are doing the same creepy thing with their headlines.
It’s not James Dean that will star in a new movie. it’s “James Dean”.
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Paramedic, “You have no pulse, blood pressure is zero over zero, you have no pupillary response, no reflexes. Your temperature is 70 degrees.”
James Dean, “What does that mean?”
Paramedic, “Well, it’s a puzzle, because technically you’re not alive; except you’re conscious, so we don’t know what it means.”
James Dean, “You’re saying I’m dead?”
Paramedic: “Don’t jump to conclusions. Obviously, I didn’t mean you were really dead. Dead people don’t move around and talk.”
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Fuck the article, I came for the comments. Best of the interwebs: clever humans.
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Welcome aboard, comrade.
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Since he died in a car crash, even if he could be revived now, he’d lack that movie star face.
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This is a bad headline. James Dean will not be starring in anything, as he is dead. Perhaps “New movie, desperate for attention, decides to use dead-eyed CGI simulcra of Boomer-Fetish-Necro-Totem.”
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