Larry Kramer's Tony Award-winning play The Normal Heart has received the
go-ahead to be turned into an HBO film. The Ryan Murphy-directed adaptation will
begin filming in New York City later this year for a 2014 debut on HBO. Larry
Kramer himself will write the screenplay adaptation. The film will star Academy
Award nominee Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, and Academy Award winner Julie
Roberts.
The Normal Heart, according to press notes, tells the story of
the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an
unflinching look at the nation’s sexual politics as gay activists and their
allies in the medical community fought to expose the truth about the burgeoning
epidemic to a city in denial.
Julia Roberts will play
paraplegic physician Emma Brookner who treats some of the earliest victims of
the epidemic. Mark Ruffalo will play Ned Weeks, who witnesses the disease and
its effects first-hand in his gay community and starts asking questions and Matt
Bomer will play Felix Turner, a reporter who becomes Ned's lover. (keep reading)
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