Clearly, this movie has been within the developmental pipeline for a while now, so attaching a director definitely means there’s some severe motion. The unique script was written by Noah King, however THR reviews that Lee Corridor is at the moment remodeling that draft. Corridor wrote each the movie and stage musical variations of the beloved “Billy Elliot,” the latter of which Tom Holland starred in on the West Finish from 2008 to 2010 — which is to say, Corridor and Holland have already labored collectively previously.

The ballet-dancing movie earned Corridor an Oscar nomination for Finest Screenplay, and his different credit embrace “Conflict Horse” and “Rocketman.” As for King, his work on the “Paddington” movies has been a worldwide success, and he’s slated to govt produce the third installment from a script he co-wrote. He most not too long ago directed the upcoming “Wonka” movie starring Timothée Chalamet, which is due out in late 2023.

Nothing else is understood about this Astaire sibling biopic, however with Holland and Corridor in pivotal roles, it looks as if the film might be an actual hit. Holland is unsurprisingly very adept in the entire issues Fred Astaire was good at, and he positively enjoys attending to flex these expertise. Mainstream Hollywood hasn’t actually given him the chance to sing and dance a lot, so it’s going to be enjoyable to see him faucet and jive his means by an homage to a pivotal determine in dance historical past … assuming the movie makes it to launch, after all. You by no means know today.