Biopic News

Josh Gad will portray German actor/director Kurt Gerron in an upcoming biopic. Fleeing his home country after the rise of Hitler, Gerron settled in Amsterdam where he was captured in 1943. Sent to a Jewish ghetto in Czechoslovakia, Gerron was forced to make The Fuhrer Donates a City to the Jews, a film that portrayed the camp in a positive light.

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.