Spoiler Alert: Michael Ausiello Talks Adapting Memoir & Why He Loves Andor

Based on executive producer Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, the upcoming romantic drama, Spoiler Alert, stars Jim Parsons as Ausiello, an entertainment writer who has a rom-com-worthy meet-cute with photographer Kit Cowan, portrayed in the film by Ben Aldridge. Like the memoir, the heartbreaking holiday movie chronicles the couple’s love story from their first fated moment, to their last, when Kit is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The movie also stars two-time Academy Award-winner Sally Field and Bill Irwin. Before Spoiler Alert hits theaters on December 9, Collider’s Steve Weintraub sat down with memoir author and executive producer Ausiello (also President and Editorial Director of TVLine) to discuss adapting his life’s story to the big screen. In the interview, Ausiello explains his hands-on approach to the film adaptation, while allowing screenwriters David Marshall Grant and Ben Savage pen the script, and discusses how Spoiler Alert avoids becoming a clich