Blind Item #8 - A Star Is Born - A Dancing Boy Blind Item
Here's one about Solan:
In my ever-so-unimportant view, one of the best parts of pre-production (or in this case pre-pre-production) is casting - especially when it involves an actor or actress who has yet to do feature or US tv work.
Because of the themes of the dancing boy franchise - namely, early on, childhood celeb and its discontents - many of the adult actors, as I've said, will be former child actors (did you notice Christina Johnson nee Nigra among my twitter followers? - more to come...). And also because of the same theme, as it relates to the storyline of the first feature, many of the young actors will be new to the big leagues.
Enter the first of these...
He'll be playing the role of an important childhood friend - or rather, frenemy (he betrays me in the first feature, "The Dancing Boy: A Hollywood Story," and there is a reconciliation in the second, "The Little Drummer Boy"). He'll appear in further projects in the same manner as knights of another franchise, after this one thing happens to them. He'll also play himself in present-tense storylines.
Who is he?
He's foreign born, and still resides in his home country. His first name - and believe me I tried hard to come up with a clue for this one - is Solan. His last name?
I guess I could go with the director who has been in the news in the past ten days, but I'll go with someone more obscure - one of my favorite poets as well as a former mentor of mine (he's now deceased).
We met in San Francisco, where we lived on the same block. (In fact, my housemates were his speed dealers, which is how I met him, and what ultimately killed him.) That same year he published his most well known work, entitled "The Man With (certain nocturnal symptoms related to a then almost always lethal STI)."
You'll find our young friend on Instagram. Strangely, I'd been having literal dreams and visions of this person, as it relates to the production of the second movie, for months. To find out he actually exists - and the way in which it happened (get to that later) - is a little crazy.
In my ever-so-unimportant view, one of the best parts of pre-production (or in this case pre-pre-production) is casting - especially when it involves an actor or actress who has yet to do feature or US tv work.
Because of the themes of the dancing boy franchise - namely, early on, childhood celeb and its discontents - many of the adult actors, as I've said, will be former child actors (did you notice Christina Johnson nee Nigra among my twitter followers? - more to come...). And also because of the same theme, as it relates to the storyline of the first feature, many of the young actors will be new to the big leagues.
Enter the first of these...
He'll be playing the role of an important childhood friend - or rather, frenemy (he betrays me in the first feature, "The Dancing Boy: A Hollywood Story," and there is a reconciliation in the second, "The Little Drummer Boy"). He'll appear in further projects in the same manner as knights of another franchise, after this one thing happens to them. He'll also play himself in present-tense storylines.
Who is he?
He's foreign born, and still resides in his home country. His first name - and believe me I tried hard to come up with a clue for this one - is Solan. His last name?
I guess I could go with the director who has been in the news in the past ten days, but I'll go with someone more obscure - one of my favorite poets as well as a former mentor of mine (he's now deceased).
We met in San Francisco, where we lived on the same block. (In fact, my housemates were his speed dealers, which is how I met him, and what ultimately killed him.) That same year he published his most well known work, entitled "The Man With (certain nocturnal symptoms related to a then almost always lethal STI)."
You'll find our young friend on Instagram. Strangely, I'd been having literal dreams and visions of this person, as it relates to the production of the second movie, for months. To find out he actually exists - and the way in which it happened (get to that later) - is a little crazy.
