Since Dead Actors Can Now Get Feature Roles, Let’s Go All Out

James Dean’s new movie opens up limitless possibilities!

Steve Jones
Nov 7 · 3 min read
James Dean (from CNN)

In one of the strangest bits of Hollywood casting news this year — stranger even than Robert Pattinson as Batman — is word that James Dean will be starring in a Vietnam War-era film.

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