First Look: Collider Shares First Look Photos At Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

Thanks to Brian Formo over at Collider, we have a sneak peak at French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan’s first English language feature film, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.

The film features an all-star line-up including Jessica Chastain, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington in the title role as John F. Donovan, Jacob Tremblay, Kathy Bates, Michael Gambon, Bella Thorne, Chris Zylka and Emily Hampshire.

The official synopsis reads:

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

Dolan tells Formo, “It’s the story of a child who worships an actor, Kit’s the fictional hero, and my movie and [Hellsome] is built around specific tropes of American cinema, such as a superhero and a villain.” The villain is played by Jessica Chastain as Moira McAllister-King. “Her character is sheerly evil, and that was part of a desire to really tell the story as a superhero tale. The superhero owes his public, must save them from evil, or in this case from the truth, and has to live by this facade and wear this mask, which in this case is his sexuality.” He says of her.

Could we be more excited for this film? Check out some photos below via Collider.