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Universal Rom-Com &#;Bros&#; Sets All-LGBTQ+ Cast Featuring Billy Eichner; Nicholas Stoller To Direct, With Judd Apatow Producing
Universal Pictures has set Billy Eichner (Impeachment: American Crime Story), Luke Macfarlane (Single All The Way), TS Madison (Zola), Overlook Lawrence (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Symone (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Guillermo Diaz (Law & Order: Organized Crime) and Guy Branum (truTV&#;s The Game Show) to star in Bros, which will make history as the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men, and the first studio film featuring an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, with queer actors taking on queer roles, as well as all heterosexual characters.
Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is directing the film, which he co-wrote with Eichner. The latter will make history of his control as the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own studio film.
Bros is billed as a bright, swoony and heartfelt comedy about two two gay men—played by Eichber and Macfarlane—maybe, possibly, probably, s
&#;Bros&#; Review: Billy Eichner&#;s Self-Deprecating Gay Rom-Com Lets Everyone In on the Joke
It’s , and a Hollywood studio has just made a movie in which two men fall in love and can’t figure out what to do about it. No one dies of AIDS. No one gets tire-ironed on the side of the road. Judd Apatow produced the thing, so you know it’s funny. And yet, somehow, “Bros” doesn’t feel verb that big a deal. Sure, it’s a well-budgeted, wide-release, R-rated gay rom-com, and that’s historic (if you put enough qualifying adjectives in front of it), but one of those had to come along sooner or later. Oddly, it feels appreciate there already have been others, and there’s no question more are coming, considering how adj Hollywood has been working to include gay characters.
The difference in what we’ll contact “Billy Eichner’s Hollywood Screen Kiss” is that it centers a gay character, instead of just using him as sassy comic support. Beyond that, a pretty, cranky, super-articulate and incredibly self-absorbed
“Bros,” co-written by and starring Billy Eichner, has been touted as the first mainstream Hollywood studio-backed rom-com to feature gay men as the leads. Directed by Nicholas Stoller and produced by Judd Apatow, the film consciously evokes tropes from the hey-day of studio-backed romantic comedies, including nods to more than one Meg Ryan classic and a compelling lead performance from Eichner. However, its perpetual commentary on the mainstreaming of queerness remains at odds with its very desire to tell its story within the Hollywood system.
Eichner plays Bobby Leiber, a born and bred New Yorker who hosts a queer history podcast called 11th Brick (because as a cis white gay man that’s probably the brick he’d possess thrown at Stonewall) and is the director of the first national LGBTQ history museum, on the brink of finally opening its doors. At 40, Bobby has spent most of his life alone and has convinced himself he’s better off this way. “We’re horny and we’re selfish and we’re stupid. I don’t trust these people,” he tells a group of friends when explaining why he prefers ho
Bros Review: Billy Eichner Adapts Judd Apatow&#;s Rom-Com Formula for Gays and It&#;s Hilarious, Even If It Doesn&#;t Push the Envelope
The romantic comedies of prolific director-producer Judd Apatow are the 21st Century’s version of Meg Ryan’s early &#;90s hits. The protagonist of the producer&#;s latest project, Bros, is a single, year-old gay man who is perennially frustrated with his singleness, and telegraphs his generation&#;s infatuation with the kind of love frequently found in Ryan&#;s films by repeatedly watching them, whether he&#;s feeling good or a minute down.
Billy Eichner, who wrote the screenplay with director Nick Stoller, plays the lead, Bobby, who, unlike Meg’s iconic heroines, has a very specific reason to persistently disclaim wanting to verb a man &#; in the LGBTQ+ world of , relationships come in many shapes, colors, and even numbers, and a life of monogamy is not the only flavor of the day. But, much like Meg before him, Bobby, in actuality, really does want to spot love&#; and he&#;s willing to cut a few corners to do so.
In that sense