You might have thought that Robert Pattinson - Hollywood's reluctant brooding, scruffy and rebellious poster boy - would be perfectly cast to play 1950s sex-symbol James Dean. But you'd be wrong. (Bet you feel a bit silly now, right?)
That is, according to the people in charge of casting the new James Dean biopic (called Life) you're wrong.
Pattinson has instead been cast as Dean's travelling companion and pal photographer Dennis Stock in the film that will be directed by Anton Corbijn.
The film's title comes from Life magazine for whom Stock worked.
Dean's 1955 breakthrough flick, East of Eden, hadn't yet been released when Stock was sent to snap the young actor. The pair became friends and travelled from New York to Los Angeles and onto Indiana together.
Dean died in a car crash in September 1955 before his most famous film, Rebel Without A Cause, was released a few months later.
Some of the most famous pictures of Dean were taken by Stock.
'So who's playing Dean?' you ask. Dane DeHaan, that's who.
If you haven't heard of DeHaan before, prepare to soon be hearing his name relentlessly, all the time . As well as Life, he's also signed up to star as Harry Osborn in the new Amazing Spider-Man movie.
You may recognise him from Lawless, in which he played Cricket Pate, and Chronicle in which he played Andrew Detmer. He's also well known for his portrayal of Jesse in the HBO series In Treatment.
The 27-year-old is being heralded by those in the know as 'the next big thing'. Getting cast as Dean and having Robert Pattinson as his supporting actor would seem to back that up. He'll be practising his: "Yo Pattinson, tea no sugar, yeah?" patter right now (because that's how all lead actors treat the supporting cast).
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