They say art is what you can get away with, and Jared Leto is betting he can get away with playing iconic artist Andy Warhol. No director has been mooted yet, though the film will be based on the 1989 book “Warhol: The Biography” by Victor Bockris. Here are two that Leto will try to best: Oliver Stone’s The Doors, where the artist was played by Crispin Glover, and The Simpsons, one of episode of which includes Hank Azaria voicing Warhol.
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Leto, the universally-celebrated prankster who spent months terrorizing his Suicide Squad co-stars in preparation for the three minutes’ worth of screentime they shared together in that film, will co-produce Warhol with Winter and Michael De Luca. Screenwriter Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street, Boardwalk Empire) will use the biography as a starting point for the new feature, entitled simply Warhol.
In the early 1960s, Warhol introduced the world to pop art, turning his eye toward soup cans, cola bottles, and celebrities like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. (In 1968, another artist shot and nearly killed him.) Warhol was only 58 when he died in 1987.
Warhol shot to fame in the 1960s with his unique take on American consumerism and quickly became a fixture in the NY club scene.
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He has already been played on the big screen many times before by the likes of David Bowie (Basquiat), Guy Pearce (Factory Girl) and Bill Hader (Men in Black III).
