The upcoming Hank Williams biopic, I Saw the Light, got a few new additions recently, rounding its cast out with David Krumholtz, Josh Pais, James DuMont and Wrenn Schmidt.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Hiddletson (Muppets Most Wanted, Thor) will star as the legendary country star with Elizabeth Olsen (Godzilla, Captain America: The Winter Solider) portraying his wife, Audrey Mae. Production for the movie is underway in Louisiana.
Krumholtz (The Judge, This is the End) will play a journalist in I Saw the Light who eventually lands an interview with Williams. Pais (That Awkward Moment, Ray Donovan) will portray a production president for MGM who, at one time, tried to convince Williams to become a movie star. DuMont (Dallas Buyers Club, Get on Up) is set to be a music promoter and small-town mayor who coaxes a performance out of the singer. Schmidt (Boardwalk Empire, The Americans) will play one of Williams' many love interests and the mother to his child, who is born shortly after the singer's untimely death.
Williams came to prominence with hits like "Your Cheatin' Heart," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and "Hey, Good Lookin.'" He struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for much of his life until 1953 when his heart gave out at 29.
Hiddleston's Thor co-star, Chris Hemsworth, will be starring and producing in another Hank Williams project called I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive. The movie is based on a book written by Steve Earle that revolves around a fictitious doctor who gave Williams too much morphine, resulting in the singer's death. Williams' ghost comes back to haunt the disgraced doctor.
I Saw the Light will be out sometime in 2015.
