Julia Roberts, Alec Baldwin to star in Ryan Murphy film
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Ryan Murphy is putting together an all-star cast for his latest film project, the big-screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning drama The Normal Heart, being produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B shingle
Julia Roberts and Alec Baldwin, plus White Collar star Matt Bomer and Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons, are joining Mark Ruffalo in the autobiographical drama, written by Larry Kramer, that details the rise of HIV/AIDS in New York’s gay community in the 1980s. Murphy, who hit mainstream success with Glee, is directing from a script by Kramer.
The play won the Tony for best revival last year, as well as best supporting actor and best supporting actress (for John Benjamin Hickey and Ellen Barkin, respectively). It also garnered nominations for best actor and best directing. It was originally staged Off-Broadway in 1985 and has seen several revivals in London and Los Angeles.
Murphy optioned the rights to the play last August and had Ruffallo attached as Ned Weeks, who is one of the first to raise an alarm when what was then known as “gay cancer" surfaces in New York.
Roberts will play Emma Brookner, a wheel-chair bound doctor who is one of the only doctors in New York talking the new disease seriously. That role is the one that won Barkin her Tony.
Baldwin is playing Weeks’ brother, a lawyer having a hard time dealing with his sibling's sexuality.
Bomer’s character is that of Felix Turner, a gay fashion journalist who becomes Week’s boyfriend and tragically contracts the disease. Bomer will be stepping into the shoes that won Hickey his Tony.
Parsons, who acted in the Broadway version, will reprise his role, that of a Southererner who is a gay activist and part of a gay men’s health crisis group.
Congratulations to Matt Bomer, the next big thing in Hollywood.
I ****ing hate Ryan Murphy, he's a hack director who can't put together a well shot film.
He's a B writer, so he should stick to writing ****** shows and leave directing to people who actually know what they're doing.
And now a movie that could be really well done (other than that autism-plagued **** from The Big Bang Theory) will be a ****** meandering movie with mediocre performances.
He's taking over the role which won the Broadway actor an Emmy. How is that ******?
You mean a Tony? Anyway, theater film adaptations tend to be ****** and bashed by critics, so... Plus, Ryan Murphy sucks. And I meant Bomer is doing Magic Mike, which sounds ****ing retarded, and In Time was received badly.
You mean a Tony? Anyway, theater film adaptations tend to be ****** and bashed by critics, so... Plus, Ryan Murphy sucks. And I meant Bomer is doing Magic Mike, which sounds ****ing retarded, and In Time was received badly.
Yes I do.
Not all of them and I expect it to do well if it is being written by an Oscar nominee.
Ryan Murphy isn't as bad as people make him out to be. Lets just be happy he's only directing which is the thing he's best at.
Murphy directed Running with Scissors (a horrible film) and Eat, Pray, Love which was one of the most horribly vapid films I'd ever been forced to watch.
I just wish he'd stop choosing ****** roles.
Lets just be happy he's only directing which is the thing he's best at.