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The first trailer for the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light starts with a quote from the country-Western legend: “People don’t write music — it’s given to them.” Well, he certainly accepted the gift, becoming one of the most influential and recorded songwriters of the 20th century. Now an unlikely actor is bringing…

A British actor walks into a recording studio to sing a country music legend’s first hit. How does he do? You be the judge of this first clip of Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light. The actor re-creates the April 1947 session in Nashville that produced “Move It On Over,” which established…

Can a Londoner pull off playing one of the most influential folks in the history of country music? Well, as you can see from this first image from the biopic I Saw The Light, Tom Hiddleston certainly looks like Hank Williams. (That’s him in the top pic below, by the way.) The Thor baddie also will do his own singin…

Sony Pictures Classics said it has acquired worldwide rights to the Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light, the movie that stars Tom Hiddleston as the iconic country singer. Marc Abraham wrote and directed the pic that chronicles Williams meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal…

Elizabeth Olsen has joined the cast of RatPac Entertainment and Bron Studios’ I Saw The Light, the film about the life of country western singer Hank Williams. Deadline’s Mike Fleming broke the news this summer that Tom Hiddleston nabbed the Williams role and will be singing classics like “Your Cheatin' Heart”, “I'm…

EXCLUSIVE: The Avengers star Tom Hiddleston will play Country & Western legend Hank Williams in I Saw The Light, a film that Marc Abraham will direct and which has come together as a co-production between RatPac Entertainment, Bron Studios, and Creative Wealth Media Finance, all of which will fund the film. Abraham…