“James Dean Rushed to Hospital After Medical Emergency…..
When obscure directors Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh revealed through trade publication The Hollywood Reporter last week that James Dean had been hired in their upcoming picture, it was difficult to suppress utter dismay. Visual effects studios in Canada and South Africa are using computer-generated imagery (CGI) to revive Rebel Without a Cause star, who passed away in a car incident in 1955, for a role in their Vietnam war film, Finding Jack. The filmmakers were given permission by Dean’s family to use his picture.
Jimmy (as Dean was known) is renowned as much for his real life as for his fictional one, having been immortalized as cinema’s first rebel thanks to his groundbreaking 1955 picture “Rebel Without a Cause.” His two realities were mutually reinforcing: director Nicholas Ray stated, “To deal with him meant studying his nature, attempting to comprehend it; without this, his skills of expression were frozen” (via Daily Beast).The lore surrounding James Dean has been shaped by everything from accounts of his oddly complicated personality to the events surrounding his terrible accident. Let us look back at the life of the mysteriously disappeared Hollywood star.
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