Tom Hiddleston To Play Hank Williams In ‘I Saw The Light’
By Russ Fischer/June 12, 2014 3:45 pm EST
Tom Hiddleston wouldn’t have been the first person I thought of to play country musician Hank Williams. But now that a deal is in place for that exact thing to become a reality, it actually sounds pretty good. The versatile and charming actor will play Williams in I Saw the Light, a film that will chart the singer’s spectacular and damaging rise to fame at 25, and his untimely death at age 29.Deadline reports that production on I Saw the Light is set to take place in Louisiana this October. Additionally, the producers and backers of the film have managed to strike a deal with Sony to acquire rights to several Williams songs. And so Hiddleston will sing standards like ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart,’ ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,’ and ‘Hey Good Lookin’.‘Marc Abraham will direct from a script he wrote inspired by Hank Williams: The Biography by Sun Records authority and general country & western music historian Colin Escott.
Hiddleston has shown his range in films from The Avengers and Thor to War Horse and The Deep Blue Sea. Jim Jarmusch put a guitar in his hand for Only Lovers Left Alive, and there’s a melancholy to that performance that could serve this film well, too.
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Tom Hiddleston To Play Hank Williams In ‘I Saw The Light’
By Russ Fischer/June 12, 2014 3:45 pm EST
Tom Hiddleston wouldn’t have been the first person I thought of to play country musician Hank Williams. But now that a deal is in place for that exact thing to become a reality, it actually sounds pretty good. The versatile and charming actor will play Williams in I Saw the Light, a film that will chart the singer’s spectacular and damaging rise to fame at 25, and his untimely death at age 29.Deadline reports that production on I Saw the Light is set to take place in Louisiana this October. Additionally, the producers and backers of the film have managed to strike a deal with Sony to acquire rights to several Williams songs. And so Hiddleston will sing standards like ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart,’ ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,’ and ‘Hey Good Lookin’.‘Marc Abraham will direct from a script he wrote inspired by Hank Williams: The Biography by Sun Records authority and general country & western music historian Colin Escott.
Hiddleston has shown his range in films from The Avengers and Thor to War Horse and The Deep Blue Sea. Jim Jarmusch put a guitar in his hand for Only Lovers Left Alive, and there’s a melancholy to that performance that could serve this film well, too.
Hiddleston has shown his range in films from The Avengers and Thor to War Horse and The Deep Blue Sea. Jim Jarmusch put a guitar in his hand for Only Lovers Left Alive, and there’s a melancholy to that performance that could serve this film well, too.
