Jared Leto has signed on to portray Andy Warhol in a biopic titled Warhol that the actor will also produce. Screenwriter Terence Winter, who has worked on the Sopranos, the Wolf of Wall Street and Vinyl, will write the script and co-produce.
The movies source material is author Victor Bockris account of the pop artists life, Warhol: The Biography, which came out two years after the artists 1987 death. The Hollywood Reporter describes that book as the jumping-off point for the film and says that Leto and fellow producer Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Captain Phillips) had long wanted to work on a Warhol biopic.
The producers have not yet disclosed a film timeline. Leto is currently filming an untitled Blade Runner sequel with director Denis Villeneuve.
A recent Rolling Stone cover story on Leto detailed his love of art and desire to be an artist as a kid. He attended several art colleges, ultimately attending New York Citys School of Visual Arts, where he studied painting and photography. I had thousands of negatives that I processed myself, he said. I would go in the darkroom and come out, like, eight hours later where did the day go? I loved the darkroom. He said hed lost all of his negatives.
Leto has previously quoted Warhol on multiple occasions in interviews. He recited a favorite quote, with regard to his own careers diversity, to Rolling Stone in 2013: Labels are for cans, not people.
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