Xavier Dolan’s Jessica Chastain-Led ‘John Donovan’ Gets a Spring Start Date

“I’ve been meaning to tell that story for a long time – before I wrote ‘I Killed My Mother,'” said Dolan in a statement. “It always is precarious to venture into movies on movies. Everyone scowls when they hear about the next movie on the business. But this isn’t a movie on the business. It is a movie about a man trying to make it, trying to live his dream and his life all at once, and being told that he basically can’t. It also is about a kid dreaming of having this man’s life for all the wrong reasons, not realizing how painful it actually is. I was that kid, writing love letters to actors – as a matter of fact it seems like I still am. And that story is a tribute to both the kid I was and the idols of my childhood – some died, some just disappeared without a trace, because they didn’t fit.”

Dolan’s next film “It’s Only The End of the World” has finished shooting and is almost certain to be at Cannes next May.