Brandon Flynn IS James Dean!

Brandon!

Wow, nothing for so long and then... THIS!

R2 he has been doing theatre in NY for a while now.

Terrible casting.

Who?

r3 Yeah, I meant TV shows and movies. Stuff that people actually see.

Brandon is 32. He’ll be playing Dean from 19-24. Hmmm.

Has he... Improved as an actor since 13 Reasons Why? And if you fuck someone in order to get cast as JD does it count as method acting?

He was recently in the Apple TV series about the Lincoln Assassination.

R7 well 24 would have to be the cutoff as Dean died at 24.

Yes, dear. I know.

R6 people see theatre. Theatre is local though. Clearly not everyone can see it like tv where you don’t have to get off your fat ass to see it. You have to actually go see it in person, live, and actually be in the city the show is happening.

Hopefully they show full penetration or at least hole

This isn’t a porno. Fucking imbecile

Who? And I'm not speaking about James Dean.

This is bad casting

Apparently Twitter thinks Willie Dean is going to be played by Joe Locke (the unfortunate looking goblin from Heartstopper) since the director just started following him.

Another unnecessary biopic.

He was chosen because he’s gay and you can’t have a straight person playing gay.

I'm really tired of decades of Marilyn and James Dean hero-worship. It just never ends - at least Marilyn had a long career, some infamous marriages/affairs, and died tragically and suspiciously.

James Dean though? 3 films and a car crash. I don't get it.

I think the realization that James Dean was gay has kept the fascination with him alive.

He only did three films, but they left quite an impression.

Brandon is a good actor. I just saw him playing a young Marlon Brando in the off-Broadway play Kowalski.

Said play ^^^ is supposedly slated to move to Broadway in the fall...

R21 his impression has nothing to do with him ALLEGEDLY being bi.

There is zero proof to back any of it up. And the fascination came from the fact he died young as his career was about to explode.

Clearly the biopic obsession isn't ending anytime soon.

[quote]Brandon is 32. He’ll be playing Dean from 19-24. Hmmm.

To be fair, James Dean was looking rather haggard toward the end, with lines on his forehead and bags under his eyes.

R24 - so what? A lot of actors have died young - but for some reason, the mythology around Dean just grows. It's weird. River Phoenix? Brandon Lee? Heath Ledger? Paul Walker?

All of them had equal if not larger careers. There's something else about him - or just that there's a lot of royalty checks when his image I sold or used. Same thing with Marilyn - she gave the Acting Studio in NYC her estate and they've been cashing in our her pics and images for over 60 years.

Dean's estate makes around $5 million a year - Marilyn's estate was sold by the Strasberg's to ABG and it earns around $10 million a year. It's gross.

R27 did all those guys die in 1955? Dean died LONG before them. Bringing them up is irrelevant.

Every actor you mentioned died after working for years and had many credits. He died after 3 credits at the beginning of his career. In 1955. Not the 90s or 2000s

Casted badly.

Cash is king. Give the people what they want.

R28 - which makes it even weirder - he died 70 years ago. Most people under 40 haven't seen any of his films. It's not a reason for his popularity.

I don't think there's an answer but I just don't understand it.

James Dean looks like Boo Radley.