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James Dean biopic about late actor’s gay college romance in the works
Surviving James Dean will be based on William Bast’s 2006 memoir of the same name, and will be directed by Guy Guido (Madonna and the Breakfast Club), who has also written the film’s screenplay.Bast’s book details his own relationship with the star, who he met while studying drama in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. The two became friends and roommates, and eventually started a romantic relationship, with Bast claiming that they agreed to keep the nature of their relationship private to avoid harming Dean’s career.Dean died in a car accident on September 30, 1955 at the age of 24.