From superhero boots to soft shoe: Chris Evans is following in the tap-shoed footprints of his fellow Avenger Tom Holland by starring in a movie about one of Hollywood’s most legendary dancers.

At the end of last year, it was announced that Holland will be portraying dancer/actor Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic, and on Tuesday, Deadline reported that Evans will star as Hollywood’s other hot hoofer, Gene Kelly, in a drama the star is helping to develop with producer John Logan.

Sources tell Deadline that the untitled film is based on Evans’ original idea about “a 12-year-old boy who works on the MGM Lot in 1952 and begins to create an imagined friendship with the legendary movie star Gene Kelly while working on his next film.”

No studio has picked up the project yet, but Evans is set to produce the film alongside Logan, who is also writing the script. Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman will produce through their company T-Street Productions.

Evans, Johnson and Bergman last worked together in 2019 on Knives Out, which has a sequel is in post-production. Three-time Oscar nominee Logan’s has also written Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd and the new James Bond movie, Skyfall.

Evans is going to have a big 2022; he is voicing the iconic Toy Story character in Lightyear, and will star in The Gray Man, directed by the Russo Brothers and starring his Knives Out co-star Ana de Armas along with Regé-Jean Page and Billy Bob Thornton.

Evans was previously announced as the star of a new big-screen adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors, which was sidelined because of Covid. And if by some chance there ever is a real-life version of the fictional Rogers: The Musical from Hawkeye, Evans will be a shoo-in (or is that a soft shoe-in?) for the lead role.