KJ Apa Lands His Next Big-Screen Role — And Yes, He's Going To Sing

KJ Apa, better referred to as Archie Andrews to Riverdale fans, is hitting the big screen once more.


With roles in The Hate U Give and Altar Rock in the can, Apa is bringing his talents to a upcoming flick that puts his musical prowess to good use: I Still Believe, a biopic about Christian singer Jeremy Camp.


Camp is an especially successful artist, with four RIAA-certified Gold albums, 38 No. 1 songs, and was even Billboard's No. 2 Christian artist of the decade in 2010. You could hear one of his most popular songs, "There Will Be A Day," in the official lyric video above. Apa likely be exploring these accomplishments by Camp and more over the course of the movie, where we hope we get to be able to see a wholesome KJ rocking the same hairstyle and look as Camp while in, because it would certainly be a good fashion for him.


Apa has flexed his musical talents, as we've heard on Riverdale, a couple of times. We know he's certainly an excellent choice for the role, and this will give him a chance to show us how much he can truly dazzle because the singer Camp. It's not clear just nevertheless, nevertheless, if he'll be singing Camp's songs himself like Taron Egerton is in the upcoming Rocketman, or if he'll simply be lip-synching like Rami Malek did to Freddie Mercury and Queen's iconic tunes in Bohemian Rhapsody.


The Wrap reports that shooting is scheduled to start this spring, with a tentative release date of March 20, 2020. We don't know a lot about the movie for now, other than its subject, nevertheless we do know whichever role Apa lands in the future, he's going to completely rock. And yes it looks like 2019 and 2020 are set to be the years of the biopic, what with all of the successful films coming out left and right exploring famed musicians.