A Love, Simon spin-off will be coming to the small screen this June. As we reported on Queerty last November, the groundbreaking, 2018 Disney movie, which featured a gay lead character, has spawned a TV spin-off.
It was first thought the show, which will comprise of ten, half-hour episodes, would debut on the new Disney+ streaming service. However, according to Deadline, the show – which is now titled Love, Victor – will be coming to Hulu (which was bought by Disney last year).
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The series will begin airing in June, which happens to be LGBTQ Pride Month.
Love, Victor has been made by 20th Century Fox TV with This Is Us executive producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. The two creatives adapated the screenplay for Love, Simon. According to a report last year in Hollywood Reporter, Nick Robinson, who played Simon in the feature film, will executive-produce and narrate the show.
The original Love, Simon was based on Becky Albertalli’s young adult novel, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Telling the story of a closeted gay teen who lives in an Atlanta suburb, it proved a box office hit, taking $66million worldwide over a production budget of $17million.
The TV show will focus on a new arrival at Creekwood High School (the same school in the movie). Like Simon before him, Victor (played by Michael Cimino), is on a journey of self-discovery and struggling with his sexual orientation.
Before this, Cimino’s most high-profile role was in last year’s horror movie, Annabelle Comes Home.
Deadline says Disney’s decision to place the show on Hulu follows a recent trend by the entertainment giant as it establishes an identity for the recently launched Disney+ streaming service. It appears to be keeping Disney+ as family-friendly for all ages, and placing shows such as this, and a TV show based on the movie High Fidelity, on the slightly more adult-oriented Hulu. Love, Victor will include topics such as alcohol use, marital issues, and sexual exploration.
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On another positive note, the broadcaster must have confidence in the new show. Hulu has reportedly already commissioned a writer’s room to begin exploring stories for a possible second season.
Cimino yesterday welcomed the news on his Instagram account, saying: “I’m so so excited to join the HULU family and couldn’t be more thrilled to hear the their passion and belief in “Love Victor” to start up the writers room for season 2 🤞🏾I love you all and thank you for the continued support 🙂 Oh and one more thing 🙂 THE SHOW AIRS IN PRIDE MONTH.”
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Cam
“” It appears to be keeping Disney+ as family-friendly for all ages, and placing shows such as this, and a TV show based on the movie High Fidelity, on the slightly more adult-oriented Hulu.””
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So /Disney Plus is fine for multiple shows about kids pining for their first love, including movies like High School Musical.
But ANYTHING that even HINTS at LGBT representation is too filthy for their pristine network, (That had no problem showing the Mandalorian with a lot of violence)
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Of course! A show with the main character being Gay is taboo. Although Disney did have the character Cyrus Goodman actually utter the phrase “Im Gay” recently.. so baby steps there.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Countdown til the frightwing nutbags heads begin exploding.
And “Million” dried up dusty crunt prune faced sexually frustrated Moms begin to clutch their plastic Walmart pearls…
10…9…8…7……
Cam
Plastic pearls (Snicker)
ShowMeGuy
giggles
Donston
The movie has gotten a bit of a backlash for being another project centering around white, young, pretty “straight passing ‘queers”. Also, for just being bland and basic. Though I suppose it still has a substantial enough fan base to get a spinoff.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Except for the fact that the person he was shown hopefully happily ever after was a definite shade of Brown..
Donston
But the movie had almost zero appeal when it came to a “brown” audience. And it’s not like that was a substantial character despite all the media attention the actor got. The series also looks fairly white-bread, “bro-ish”, and straight-friendly. I thought it was a passable enough movie, a cute slight above Netflix level teen dramedy. Maybe I would have been a bigger fan if I were younger. I’m actually surprised by the backlash. A lot of people are also hating on it for being a supposed female fantasy of gay male relationships. I can sorta see that. But “gay movies” rarely feel like they’re designed for “gay” men. And at least it’s not another “gay tragedy” or another movie indirectly telling us that same-sex love is improbable and all about sex and passions.
ShowMeGuy
Oh the horror, make a movie about a minority population and focus the story on the majority which is in that minority. Making television shows is still a business and you have to make more money than you spend.
Why hasn’t anyone scrambled to produce a “Moonlight” spin-off for television? Answer: Because the profit margin isn’t there.
Maybe Jean-Claude La Marre and Vivica A. Fox should start work on the television pilot for “Chocolate City 5 : Hotlanta Guys’ Night Out” and only cast it with Transgender Lesbian actresses.
Ironically, I’d pay good money to watch that.
whateverokok
First off, this article got it wrong. The movie was put out by Fox, not Disney. Disney had not even thought of buying Fox when this movie was put into production. Secondly, the movie was not a box office hit. It cost $17 million to make and needed to take in $34 million dollars to break even and start making a profit. While it made $66 million at the box office it ONLY took home $33 million. Which didn’t cover its budget/marketing costs. Get the facts straight if you plan to report news. This isn’t Fox News after all.