Zachary Quinto & JJ Abrams to Produce Anthony Perkins/Tab Hunter Picture TAB & TONY

According to Variety, JJ Abrams and Zachary Quinto are producing a movie for Paramount about the secret love affair between Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins.

The project is titled "Tab & Tony," and is currently in early development without actors or a director attached. Playwright Doug Wright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "I am My Own Wife," has been hired to write the screenplay.

Producers are Abrams through his Bad Robot company, his "Star Trek" collaborator Quinto, Hunter's longtime partner Allan Glaser, and Neil Koenigsberg.

The movie is based on Hunter's account of his struggle to come to terms with being gay in the 1950s. Hunter wrote the 2005 book "Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star," which became a New York Times bestseller and detailed his RISE to Hollywood heartthrob status in the 1950s while he was being marketed as the ideal man, as well as his issues with revealing his sexuality over the course of his career.

"Tab Hunter Confidential" was the basis for a 2015 documentary of the same name directed by Jeffrey Schwarz and produced by Glaser, Koenigsberg, and Schwartz.

Zachary Quinto first appeared on numerous television series since 2000 and, in 2003, landed the role of computer expert "Adam Kaufman" on the FOX series, 24 (2001), during its third season. In 2006, Quinto portrayed serial killer "Sylar" on the Science fiction series, Heroes (2006), until its cancellation in 2010, after four seasons. He was cast in his first main film role as "Spock", in the hugely successful franchise reboot, Star Trek (2009). His theatre credits include The Glass Menagerie, Angels in America (Off-Broadway), The Boys in the Band now playing on Broadway.

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