Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) has been cast in a new musical from filmmaker Ira Sachs, as the project titled “The Man I Love” will be a “fantasia” set in New York City during the 1980s. But that’s not it, as more names have joined the project.
Variety reports that the musical will have quite the compelling supporting casting as well, with Rebecca Hall (“The Listeners”), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“The Bear”), Tom Sturridge (“The Sandman”), and Luther Ford taking roles, too.
The indie director is known for films such as “Love is Strange,” “Little Men,” and “Passages.” Sachs penned the script alongside Mauricio Zacharias as the film is described as a “musical fantasia of a city under duress” with Malek set to play Jimmy George, “a downtown artist living in an extraordinary moment between great illness and death when, still, all beauty and love is possible.”
Production on “The Man I Love” is said to begin soon in New York, with a producing team that consists of Scott McGehee, David Siegel, and Mike Spreter through Big Creek Projects, alongside Myriam Schroeter (“Sorry Baby”), Saïd Ben Saïd (“Passages”), and Misook Doolittle (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”).
Others on board as executive producers are Jack Heller and Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen of Assemble Media, Loring McAlpin, Jonathan Weiner, and Meredith Crowley of Merino Films, Lucas Joaquin, and Kevin Chneiweiss.
Quite the tantalizing group of acting talent in that lineup, and some we don’t exactly think of when it comes to the musical genre.
