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After weeks of rumors, Tom Holland has confirmed he will indeed be playing Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic for Sony. Holland verified the news to the AP while promoting Spider-Man: No Way Home. “The script came in a week ago,” Holland said of the upcoming biopic. “I haven’t read it yet. They haven’t given it to me.” Holland, of course, has a musical-theater background that will serve him well in playing the iconic entertainer (who could forget his “Singin’ in the Rain”–“Umbrella” mash-up from Lip Sync Battle in 2017?). Not much is known yet about the film, but it won’t be the only Astaire biopic we can look forward to — Amazon is producing one of its own with Jamie Bell as Astaire and Margaret Qualley as Ginger Rogers.
