Between one and "Tenn" on the Freudian scale, Tennessee Williams biopic guaranteed to be a twenty

Oh boy, this is the best news I've heard all week: Taylor Hackford (director of such films as An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray, and My Wife Helen Mirren is Way Hotter than Your Wife Will Ever Be) has signed on to direct Tenn, a biopic about the formative years of notorious head-case and great gay American author Tennessee Williams.

The Variety article notes that the film will focus on Williams's troubled home life, "complete with a scornful father, depression, conflicts about sexuality and watching his beloved sister institutionalized and lobotomized." Sounds like the feel-good movie of the year!

Unsurprisingly, the project comes from the same folks behind the recent biopic Capote, which similarly looked at a great gay writer in a particularly troubling time in his life. Any ideas who would be perfect to play the man who would eventually bring us The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire and engage in one of the hottest high-profile three-way slapfests ever with fellow authors Gore Vidal and Truman Capote? 

I could see James McAvoy pulling it off. Or Ryan Gosling?