Exclusive: HarryShumJr to star in Universal's love story 'All My Life'
inspired by the life of Jenn Carter and her husband Solomon Chau.will play Chau, while Jessica Rothe has been cast at Carter.
The bittersweet story centers on a young couple as they plan their wedding in the face of devastating news. The couple, who had been planning their wedding since April 2014, found out that Chau had liver cancer in December that year. To make sure they got the wedding of their dreams, they moved the date up to April 11, 2015, and they raised more than $52,000 for the Toronto wedding through a GoFundMe account. They were married for four months before he died.
Marc Meyers will direct the project from a script by Todd Rosenberg. It was featured on The Black List in 2017. Todd Garner and Sean Robins will produce for their Broken Road Productions banner, and Universal’s Sara Scott and Lexi Barta will oversee the project on behalf of the studio. This is a notable leading man role in a studio film for Shum Jr., who most recently played Charlie Wu in Warner Bros.' box office hitWhile Shum Jr. only appeared at the end of the film, his character becomes a significant romantic lead in the Kevin Kwan book series and is expected to play a large role in the film's sequels. He also starred on the Freeform series
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