![]() ![]() Showalter co-wrote and directed Field in the 2015 independent film Hello My Name Is Doris, which gained Field a great deal of buzz for her heartbreaking and heartfelt performance. Michael Showalter is on hand to direct Spoiler Alert, making this a reunion for he and Field. ![]() Deadline announced that two time Academy Award winner Sally Field has been cast in the pivotal role of Kit Cowan’s mother, Marilyn. The latest casting announced casts one of the most prominent names in film in one of the most heartbreaking roles in Spoiler Alert. ![]() Earlier this summer, it was announced (via Deadline) that smoldering Fleabag star Ben Aldridge will be portraying Kit Cowan in the feature film. Michael Ausiello ‘s 2017 memoir, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies in the End, gets the cinematic treatment at the hands of The Big Sick director Michael Showalter, who’s working from a script adapted by David Marshall Grant and noted sex and relationship columnist Dan Savage. Jim Parsons & Todd Spiewak’s That’s Wonderful Productions optioned the rights to Spoiler Alert, with Parsons on tap to portray Ausiello. Throughout the story, we are treated with interstitials of Ausiello and Cowan’s meeting, their love story, and how they were dealing with the biggest challenge of all-and how Ausiello ultimately would move on. Wonderfully poignant, Spoiler Alert tells the story of the almost full year from when Ausiello’s partner Kit Cowan was diagnosed with terminal cancer, as well as his eventual passing. ![]()
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