US EditionKJ Apa Reveals How He’s Transforming Into Jimmy Stewart for Upcoming Biopic on ‘Today’
The biopic highlights Stewart's military service and rise to fame, with filming starting this September and the Stewart family supporting the project.
- KJ Apa, a Riverdale actor, was cast on August 5 to star as James Stewart in an upcoming biopic filming this September, due November 2026.
- The film focuses on Stewart's Hollywood rise, military service during WWII flying 20 missions, and his choice to leave acting at peak fame.
- Stewart enlisted at 33, quickly rose from private to colonel, flew B-24 bombers with the Army Air Forces, and received multiple military honors.
- Apa expressed feeling "honored I get to bring his story to life," highlighting Stewart's legacy and the film's support from his family including daughter Kelly Stewart-Harcourt.
- The biopic will show Stewart's emotional depth, including a notable scene where he unexpectedly cried, which director Frank Capra kept in the final cut.
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A new Jimmy Stewart biopic in the works recreates the legendary actor's World War II service
We all remember that scene in the Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” George Bailey, played by American film icon Jimmy Stewart, is in a bar at the end of the line. All his good deeds in life seem to have worked against him, and all the sacrifices he has made seem to have been for nothing. He is alone at the bar, praying for help, and begins crying. It is a truly emotional moment on the silver screen and sets up the last third of the movi…
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