Julia Roberts, Alec Baldwin, Matt Bomer, And Jim Parsons Have THE NORMAL HEART For Director Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy is the force behind Glee and American Horror Story, two of the most successful shows on TV right now, and according to Hollywood Reporter, director Murphy, whose previous film was Eat Pray Love, is developing the feature adaptation of Larry Kramer‘s Tony Award-winning drama THE NORMAL HEART and Julia Roberts, Alec Baldwin, Matt Bomer, and Jim Parsons all signed on to co-star with Mark Ruffalo in this project produced by Brad Pitt‘s banner Plan B…
Kramer wrote the script of this story which chronicles the rise of HIV/AIDS in New York’s gay community in the 1980s.
Ruffallo plays Ned Weeks, one of the first to raise an alarm about what was then known as “gay cancer”
Roberts plays Emma Brookner, a wheel-chair bound doctor in New York talking the new disease seriously.
Baldwin plays Weeks’ brother, a lawyer having a hard time dealing with his sibling’s sexuality.
Bomer plays Felix Turner, a gay fashion journalist/Week’s boyfriend and he tragically contracts the disease.
Parsons plays a Southern gay activist and part of a gay men’s health crisis group.

Here’s the drama’s official synopsis..

Full Length, Drama

Characters: 8 male, 1 female

Unit set.

A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man’s lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.

“An angry, unremitting and gripping piece of political theatre.”-New York Daily News

“Like the best social playwrights, Kramer produces a cross fire of life and death energies that illuminate the many issues and create a fierce and moving human drama.”-Newsweek