Chris Evans in talks to play Gene Kelly in biopic

By Express News Service

Speculations are rife that Chris Evans has been tapped to play the legendary American actor Gene Kelly in an untitled movie. According to Deadline, the untitled movie will comply with a 12-year-old boy working in MGM Studios, who develops an imaginary friendship with Kelly. 

Reports additionally recommend that Oscar-nominated screenwriter, John Logan, whose credit embrace Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Aviator, Hugo, and Skyfall, to call a number of, can be writing the script of the movie. Logan may also produce the movie in affiliation with Evans, Mark Kassen, Ram Bergman, and Rian Johnson, who labored with Evans within the 2019 whodunit, Knives Out. Considering the nascency of the venture, additional particulars are at the moment below wraps.

Evans, however, can be voicing the titular character of Pixar’s animated function, Lightyear. He may also be seen in Netflix’s The Gray Man.