{"id":14640,"date":"2026-09-26T00:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=14640"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:34:39","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-and-margaret-qualley-to-star-opposite-tom-holland-in-fred-astaire-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/sabrina-carpenter-and-margaret-qualley-to-star-opposite-tom-holland-in-fred-astaire-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter And Margaret Qualley To Star Opposite Tom Holland In Fred Astaire Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sabrina-carpenter-and-margaret-qualley-to-star-opposite-tom-holland-in-fred-astaire-biopic.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA-module-scss-module__sCL6Nq__divider\" \/><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2026, Tom Holland has held down the Ithacan fort \u2014 and fired an arrow or two \u2014 in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <em>The Odyssey<\/em>, thwipped into action alongside The Punisher and faced down a Savage Hulk in <em>Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em>, <em>and<\/em> done a Pepsi advert with footballing GOAT Lionel Messi. But as we reported back in July, the in-demand actor isn&#8217;t stopping there \u2014 he&#8217;s already limbering up to finally make his long-gestating Fred Astaire biopic with <em>Wonka<\/em> director Paul King. And now <em>Deadline<\/em> has confirmed that the project has just cast actor-turned-pop-megastar Sabrina Carpenter and <em>The Substance<\/em>&#8216;s Margaret Qualley in two pivotal roles.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Set to be directed by King from a script by&nbsp;<em>Fosse\/Verdon<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em>Tick, Tick&#8230; BOOM!<\/em>&nbsp;movie writer Steven Levenson, we&#8217;ve long since known that this Fred Astaire biopic is expected to centre around the legendary performer&#8217;s relationship with sister Adele Astaire, tracing their journey from simple midwestern Vaudeville act to Broadway, the West End, and beyond \u2014 first together as a duo, then apart, as Adele settled down while Fred&#8217;s star ascended alongside new partner Ginger Rogers to the Hollywood heights. And now we know that Qualley \u2014 a classically trained ballet dancer in her own right \u2014 will play the Adele to Holland&#8217;s Fred Astaire, while triple-threat talent Carpenter is on board to play the iconic Ginger Rogers. And the duo are in good company with Holland, whose career started in the West End&#8217;s <em>Billy Elliot<\/em> and whose formidable moves have been evident in everything from his Spider-Man acrobatics to <em>that<\/em> viral &#8216;Umbrella&#8217; lip sync battle.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Based on the book&nbsp;<em>The Astaires: Fred &amp; Adele<\/em>&nbsp;by Kathleen Riley, King&#8217;s Fred Astaire biopic has been in development for a solid half a decade at this point. But with Holland coming fresh from a sensational summer both critically and commercially, two massive stars now aligning with him to bring his passion project to life, and the man who gave us <em>Paddington<\/em> at the helm, it seems now really is the time to bust out the <strong>Top Hat<\/strong> and get ready for a Hot Fred Summer&#8230; coming soon to a cinema near you.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, Tom Holland has held down the Ithacan fort \u2014 and fired an arrow or two \u2014 in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey, thwipped into action alongside The Punisher and faced down a Savage Hulk in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and done a Pepsi advert with footballing GOAT Lionel Messi. But as we reported back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14642,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640\/revisions\/14642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}