--- title: See Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in I Saw The Light description: I Saw the Light will follow Williams’ rise to fame and tragic personal life canonical: https://time.com/3995815/tom-hiddleston-hank-williams/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-13T11:32:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:08:46.119Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: See Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in I Saw The Light og:description: I Saw the Light will follow Williams’ rise to fame and tragic personal life og:url: https://time.com/3995815/tom-hiddleston-hank-williams/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72c00078f3630d02/69885f0d35ba6f14fbc0ea1f/tom-hiddleston-hank-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tom Hiddleston Hank Williams og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in I Saw The Light twitter:description: I Saw the Light will follow Williams’ rise to fame and tragic personal life twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72c00078f3630d02/69885f0d35ba6f14fbc0ea1f/tom-hiddleston-hank-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in _I Saw The Light_ by [Jessica Derschowitz / Associated Press](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Derschowitz / Associated Press Aug 13, 2015 11:32 AM UTC  Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in I Saw The Light. Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in I Saw The Light.Sony Pictures Classics by [Jessica Derschowitz / Associated Press](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Derschowitz / Associated Press Aug 13, 2015 11:32 AM UTC Sony Pictures Classics has released the first look at [Tom Hiddleston](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/09/08/tom-hiddleston-hank-williams) as country music legend Hank Williams in the upcoming biopic _I Saw the Light_. The image shows a clean-cut Hiddleston (no Loki hair or _Avengers_ intergalactic garb here) wearing a cowboy hat and dressed in a suit and tie. _I Saw the Light_ will follow Williams’ rise to fame and tragic personal life, which ended with his death at age 29 from heart failure after battling alcoholism, prescription drug abuse and back problems. Elizabeth Olsen [costars as Williams’ wife](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/09/11/elizabeth-olsen-tom-hiddleston-cast-i-saw-the-light), Audrey Mae, and the cast also includes Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson, and Wren Schmidt. The film, written and directed by Marc Abraham, is named for Williams’ 1948 song of the same name and based on the 1994 book _Hank Williams: The Biography._ It opens in limited release on Nov. 27, and will go nationwide after that. 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