Jared Leto has signed on to star in the Warhol biopic. The Oscar-winning actor will portray the renowned artist and serve as a producer.
According to SPIN magazine, this movie will be based on Victor Bockris’ 1989 nonfiction book, Warhol: The Biography. Terrence Winter has agreed to write the screenplay.
Here’s more from The Hollywood Reporter: “Warhol stormed the art world in the 1960s with works that elevated American consumerism to artistic heights, showing that even Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles and celebrities could be spun into art. Openly gay before such a thing was accepted, Warhol created an art studio called The Factory that attracted large swaths of New York society (not to mention an unbalanced person or two, as one artist nearly killed Warhol when she shot him in 1968) and cranked out art ranging from silk screens to films to music.” (via GQ Magazine)