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Chris Evans is set to star as Hollywood icon Gene Kelly in a new film \u2013 based on an idea put forward by the Captain America star himself.<\/p>\n
According to Deadline<\/a>, the film will not be a biopic of Kelly but will instead tell the story of a 12-year-old boy who works on the MGM lot in 1952 and has an imaginary friendship with the Singin\u2019 in the Rain star.<\/p>\n Evans is also expected to serve as a producer on the film alongside Mark Kassen and Rian Johnson, while the script will be penned by three-time\u00a0Academy Award nominee John Logan \u2013 whose previous work includes Gladiator, The Aviator and Bond flicks Skyfall and Spectre.<\/p>\n No further details have been revealed at this stage \u2013 with no studio or director currently attached, but it certainly looks like an intriguing project.<\/p>\n If it does come to fruition, Evans will follow in the footsteps of his former MCU co-star Tom Holland in playing a tap-dancing legend of Old Hollywood, with the Spider-Man star set to play Fred Astaire<\/a> in an upcoming biopic.<\/p> Since making his final MCU appearance in Avengers: Endgame<\/a>, Evans has had a starring role in Knives Out<\/a> and appeared in cameo roles in two high-profile 2021 releases \u2013 making brief appearances in both Free Guy<\/a> and Don\u2019t Look Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n Next up, he\u2019s voicing Buzz Lightyear in Pixar\u2019s latest film Lightyear<\/a> and will play a lead alongside Ryan Gosling in the Russo Brothers\u2019 upcoming Netflix action thriller The Gray Man<\/a>, which is set to be released later in 2022.<\/p>\n Looking for something to watch? Visit our Film<\/a>\u00a0hub for more news, interviews and features, or check out our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Wednesday, 05 January 2022 at 12:00 am Chris Evans is set to star as Hollywood icon Gene Kelly in a new film \u2013 based on an idea put forward by the Captain America star himself. According to Deadline, the film will not be a biopic of Kelly but will instead tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9531,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/chris-evans-in-talks-to-play-gene-kelly-in-new-movie.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/chris-evans-in-talks-to-play-gene-kelly-in-new-movie-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/chris-evans-in-talks-to-play-gene-kelly-in-new-movie-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/chris-evans-in-talks-to-play-gene-kelly-in-new-movie.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/chris-evans-in-talks-to-play-gene-kelly-in-new-movie.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/chris-evans-in-talks-to-play-gene-kelly-in-new-movie.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/chris-evans-in-talks-to-play-gene-kelly-in-new-movie.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Patrick Cremona Published: Wednesday, 05 January 2022 at 12:00 am Chris Evans is set to star as Hollywood icon Gene Kelly in a new film \u2013 based on an idea put forward by the Captain America star himself. According to Deadline, the film will not be a biopic of Kelly but will instead tell…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/9530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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