Grant is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Savage is CAA, Hypomania Content, and Nixon Peabody Parsons’ company is CAA, Principal Entertainment LA, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown Semi-Formal is UTA, Artists First, and Stone, Genow and Ausiello is ICM Partners, Anonymous Content and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Savage CAAĬAA Media Finance and UTA brokered the deal with Focus, which will produce and distribute. Ausiello will executive produce with That’s Wonderful’s Alison Mo Massey.

Spoiler Alert is an adaptation of Michael Ausiello's 2017 memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies about how the television. Showalter will also produce with Jordana Mollick through his Semi-Formal Productions company. Jim Parsons ' latest movie has a touching true story behind it. Parsons, who got this whole thing rolling last December when he stepped up to option the book, is producing with Todd Spiewak and Eric Norsoph under their That’s Wonderful Productions banner. Grant is exec producer of ABC’s A Million Little Things, while Savage was exec producer of ABC’s The Real O’Neals. After overcoming so many obstacles to find true love, how would they stand up to their biggest challenge? Grant CAA The trailer for Michael Showalter's Spoiler Alert shows Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge in romantic true story based on Michael Ausiello's memoir. Interwoven is the story of their meeting, falling in love, and the ups and downs over 14 years. A couple of days later, they said that they wanted me to play Kit, which was a huge surprise.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. I had hoped that then that would lead to taped auditions and perhaps quite a few hoops to jump through, et cetera. Emmy-winning actor Jim Parsons opens up about the emotional experience of turning his friend's real life love story into a film with Spoiler Alert. It felt like we were speaking the same language. Can you talk about that experience and what drew you to the character Kit?īen Aldridge: I had an initial conversation with you guys about the script, which felt like it went really well. I was excited by that prospect.īen, I read that you auditioned through Zoom with Jim and the director, Michael Showalter. A little more specifically - although related to it - was that as a gay man in a long-term relationship, there were so many things I could relate to and looked forward to the chance to explore in a sincere, deep way. Parsons then went on to study theater at the University of Houston.

Jim Parsons: The overall thing was that it so powerfully hit me in the gut and in the heart that it seemed a story worth telling, a story worth adapting. 99+ Photos Having grown up in Houston, and its northern suburb of Spring, he made his first stage appearance in a school play at the age of 6.

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