Bates And Sarandon Look After "John F. Donovan"

Oscar-winners  Kathy Bates and Susan Sarandon have joined the cast of "The Death and Life of John F. Donovan" says THR.

Game of Thrones' Kit Harington will play Donovan an American movie star, a man whose correspondence with an eleven-year-old actor living with his mother in England is exposed, prompting ill-founded assumptions that begin to destroy his life and career. "Zero Dark Thirty" star Jessica Chastain plays the editor of a celebrity-dishing magazine named The Gossip who targets Donovan as his pen pal relationship is exposed.

Bates is set to play the role of Donovan's high-powered manager. Sarandon will play his mother.

The project marks the English language film debut of acclaimed  French-Canadian filmmaker and actor Xavier Dolan. Dolan co-wrote the script with Jacob Tierney, and will direct.

Production is set to begin in the Spring in New York, Montreal, Miami, and London.