Michael Showalter To Direct Jim Parsons in SPOILER ALERT: THE HERO DIES

Deadline reports that Focus Features has landed Jim Parsons as the star in Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, with The Big Sick's Michael Showalter directing and producing and David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage penning the screenplay.

The movie is based on the bestselling memoir by Michael Ausiello, the President and Editorial Director of TVLine.com.

In his heartbreaking, tragicomic memoir, Ausiello told the story of the eleven-month span between when his partner, photographer Kit Cowan, got a diagnosis of terminal cancer, and his passing. Interwoven is the story of their meeting, falling in love, and the ups and downs over 14 years. After overcoming so many obstacles to find true love, how would they stand up to their biggest challenge?

Grant is the executive producer of ABC's A Million Little Things, while Savage was executive producer of ABC's The Real O'Neals. Parsons was the one who optioned the book last December, and he is producing with Todd Spiewak and Eric Norsoph under their That's Wonderful Productions banner. Showalter will also produce with Jordana Mollick through his Semi-Formal Productions company. Ausiello will executive produce with That's Wonderful's Alison Mo Massey.

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