The Death and Life of John F. Donovan also stars Jessica Chastain, Taylor Kitsch, Kathy Bates, Susan Sarandon, Nicholas Hoult, and Thandie Newton.
Xavier Dolan’s English-language debut The Death and Life of John F. Donovan hasn’t yet been announced for the fall festival circuit, but it’s starting to look like it will be soon.
He plays a young fan who’s desperately, if not obsessively, fond of an American TV star called John F. Donovan (Kit Harington).
We follow their respective lives as their pen-pal relationship is about to be exposed, jeopardizing their friendship and turning their worlds upside down.