The film is the true story of Ron Woodroof, (Matthew McConaughey) a tough Texas electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and given six months to live. Frustrated with the lack of available medical options and unwilling to accept a death sentence, Woodroof found a lifeline using alternative drugs and created a lucrative smuggling business that made those drugs available to AIDS patients. He died in 1992.
Garcia Bernal will play an effeminate member of the club and a fellow AIDS patient who meets Woodroof in the hospital.
Hilary Swank was linked to the project. She has sinced moved on.
Jean-Marc Vallée will direct the drama Craig Borten and Melissa Wallack wrote the screenplay
Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling were gonna star in the pic at different points along the way with helmers Marc Forster and Craig Gillespie also circling the biopic
Robbie Brenner, Rachel Rothman-Winter, and Nathan Ross will produce the film.
Production kicks off next month in New Orleans.
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