Film & TVNewsJared Leto confirms he’ll play Andy Warhol in an upcoming filmLeto was first attached to a biopic about the artist back in 2016ShareLink copied ✔️August 8, 2020Film & TVNewsTextThom Waite Jared Leto has taken to Instagram to confirm that he will be playing pop art icon Andy Warhol in an upcoming film. “So grateful and excited about the opportunity,” the Blade Runner 2049 actor and Met Gala fixture writes in the caption to the post, which features pictures of the artist and wishes him a happy belated birthday. Leto was first linked to an Andy Warhol biopic, based on Victor Bockris’ 1989 book Warhol: The Biography, back in 2016. With Leto as both the lead actor and co-producer, the film also had Terence Winter – the screenwriter behind The Wolf of Wall Street and Boardwalk Empire – attached as a writer. However, the new announcement doesn’t provide much more information, meaning it’s difficult to tell whether it relates to the same project, or whether any other production details have changed in the interim. View Leto’s confirmation of his role in the forthcoming film below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREMeet the 2025 winners of the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker AwardsOobah Butler’s guide to getting rich quickRed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industryHappyend: A Japanese teen sci-fi set in a dystopian, AI-driven futureClara Law: An introduction to Hong Kong’s unsung indie visionary