Focus Features has greenlighted Spoiler Alert, its film adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Michael Ausiello, setting Fleabag‘s Ben Aldridge to star opposite Jim Parsons.In the tragicomic love story, Parsons will portray Ausiello, with Aldridge playing his partner Kit.Ausiello’s memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies was published by Atria Books in 2017.
In it, he unpacks the emotional maelstrom into which his relationship was plunged, in the 11 months that took Kit from his diagnosis with terminal cancer to his passing.
Interwoven in the narrative are glimpses of the roller-coaster ride that was the couple’s 14-year romance.Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) is directing, from a script by David Marshall Grant, Dan Savage and Ausiello, as we
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