Glee Creator Ryan Murphy Will Direct Mark Ruffalo in 'The Normal Heart'

It's an interesting year for Mark Ruffalo. His directorial debut Sympathy For Delicious didn't light up the festival circuit, but he's getting great notes for his work in The Kids Are Alright. And he's got to deal with Kevin Feige, who named him as the new Hulk for The Avengers. But he's also got some smaller stuff coming up.

For instance, there's the adaptation of Larry Kramer's partially autobiographical play The Normal Heart, about the early days of the AIDS crisis in New York. Ruffalo will play central activist Ned Weeks, a founder of an HIV advocacy group. And now there's confirmation that he'll be directed by Ryan Murphy, creator of Glee and director of Running with Scissors and this week's Eat Pray Love.

Ruffalo mentioned Murphy's involvement not long ago, but his exact role was uncertain. Murphy just told MTV,

I'm directing [The Normal Heart] from Larry ...

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