Mark Ruffalo To Produce & Star In ‘I Know This Much Is True’ Adaptation For HBO
HBO has landed another big screen star for a limited series the network has announced, as ‘The Avenger’s’ star Mark Ruffalo will produce and star in an adaptation of Wally Lamb’s best-selling novel ‘I Know This Much Is True’.
Written and directed by filmmaker Derek Cianfrance (‘The Place Beyond the Pines’, ‘Blue Valentine’), ‘I Know This Much Is True’ tells the story of identical twins – Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, and Dominick his brother, whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin. Dominick’s whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane. But at what cost?
Ruffalo takes the leads as both brothers in the drama, as well as exec producing alongside Lamb, Cianfrance, and Ben Browning & Glen Basner from FilmNation Entertainment (‘Arrival’), who are producing the series.
HBO has seen a number of high profile feature film talent appear in limited series on the network in recent years. Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell & Vince Vaughn all appeared in ‘True Detective’, whilst the phenomenal ‘Big Little Liars’ saw Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman have huge Emmy wins for their show. This actually marks a return to HBO for Ruffalo who starred in their adaptation of ‘The Normal Heart’ in 2014.
No news on when ‘I Know This Much Is True’ will come to screen, but we’ll let you know when we hear more. If you want to get a Mark Ruffalo fix before then, you can find him back as The Hulk/Bruce Banner in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’, which comes to UK cinemas from Tuesday, 24th October 2017.
