Biopic News

Fresh from his role as Richard Rodgers in Blue Moon, Andrew Scott has been cast as Scottish actor Ian Charleson in the upcoming biopic Elsinore. Best known for his role as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire and for his performance as Hamlet at the National Theatre, Charleson died of AIDS at the age of 40. He requested that the cause of his death not be hidden.

While Sam Mendes is working on his four Beatles biopics, the BBC has announced it has started pre-production on a six-part drama series about the Beatles‘ early career in the 1960's. Titled Hamburg Days, the biopic is based on the autobiography by Beatles session musician Klaus Voormann. No word on casting at this stage.

Leslie Odom Jr. has acquired the screen rights to the Rolling Stone article “Dance With the Devil”, which detailed how a TV pilot called 'Poor Devil' led to a friendship between Sammy Davis Jr and Anton LaVey, founder and high priest of the Church of Satan. Odom previously played singer Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami.