Hollywood Icon James Dean—whose legendary career was cut short following a fatal automobile accident—is now slated for a return to pictures with a posthumous performance in South African filmmaker Anton Ernst’s Vietnam War action-drama Finding Jack.
Dean, who has spent the past six decades resting in seclusion at Park Cemetery in his hometown of Fairmount, Indiana, will reportedly play a “complex” secondary lead role, platoon leader Lt. Rogan, with the aid of “movie magic” courtesy of Canadian F/X shop Imagine Engine and South African F/X concern MOI Worldwide. The team hopes to build a “a realistic version of James Dean” using computers, according to a press release issued today. The actor’s unforgettable, youthful, and brooding voice, last heard by audiences in such classic films as Elia Kazan’s East of Eden (1955) and the teen weeper Rebel Without a Cause (1955), will reportedly be supplied by new talent, a company spokesperson tells the Hollywood Reporter.
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