While Berlanti is attached to direct and produce, the search for a writer for the Hudson biopic is still in the process.
He also just set the record for the most planned live-action scripted series to air in one year with 15 series at WBTV across all of the digital, streaming and network services.
Despite keeping much of his private life discreet over the years, it was a known fact he was gay and became a topic of discussion when he died of AIDS-related complications in 1985.
Deadline reports that Love, Simon‘s Greg Berlanti has signed on to direct the upcoming biopic on 1950s star Rock Hudson and will also produce the project alongside Sarah Schechter for Berlanti Film Corp. and Sherry Marsh for Marsh Productions and Entertainment, Inc. Based on the memoir “All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson” by Mark Griffin and published by Harper Collins, the film will tell the story of the iconic leading man of many romantic comedies for Universal in the ’50s and ’60s including Magnificent Obsession and Giant, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.