The leads have reportedly been cast in an upcoming Lynyrd Skynyrd biopic based on a story by Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle. Deadline reports that Ian Shultis, Taylor Clift, Samuel Kay Forrest and Rich Dally III have been cast in Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash, which will begin shooting at the end of the month in Los Angeles. Originally announced as Free Bird, the film traces the band’s tragic history centering on Pyle (Shultis) and his experiences of the events surrounding the chartered-plane crash on October 20, 1977 that killed original band members Ronnie Van Zant (Clift), Steve Gaines (Forrest), and backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, Steve’s sister. Jared Cohn is set to direct.

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