Gosling joins Gillespie’s ‘Club’

If one thing’s for certain, Ryan Gosling sure doesn’t want to fit anyone’s stereotype. Equally smooth and skilled at playing a broken-hearted romantic in the iconic The Notebook and a psychotic killer in “Murder by Numbers”, he surprises us here at Ioncinema.com again by teaming up with his Lars and the Real Girl helmer Craig Gillespie on the recently-announced film Dallas Buyers Club.

Gosling will star as Ron Woodroof, an unapologetically redneck homophobe electrician from Texas who is diagnosed with full-blown AIDS in 1986. Understandably unhappy about his predicament and given six months to live, he begins smuggling new, inexpensive AIDS drugs for other AIDS patients instead of paying the premium for AZT, one of the only drugs available to combat AIDS at that time. He eventually lived six years longer than his doctors expected and became a gay community hero for his famous “Dallas Buyers Club”.

This film has been all over the map. Marc Forster was attached to direct the film at one point and Brad Pitt was set for Woodrood’s role. It has since bounced around plenty of times but seems to have settled within Gillespie’s sights.

The drama will be produced by “Sling Blade” exec David Bushell and Marc Abraham with Strike Entertainment partner Eric Newman as the executive producer. And while the film has been written and rewritten since 2002 by scribes like Craig Borten and Melissa Wallach, it’s now going through yet another rewrite by Chase Palmer. Let’s hope that all these rewrites actually make sense to the audience come premiere time.

The film will be released by Universal and Strike Entertainment and no other actors have been cast.