Anyone needing a good, ole’ fashioned effervescent uplift, look no further than the trailer for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the new movie adaptation of the hit West End musical.
Based on a true story, the musical follows 16-year-old Jamie, an outcast gay boy in the British equivalent of high school. Jamie dreams of stardom, of a career performing on stage, but even his teachers discourage him from pursuing it. Jamie takes solace in his friendship with Pritti, a fellow school outcast bullied for being Muslim. Together the two begin to hatch an outrageous plot: Jamie will start performing in local drag clubs, before hitting up the prom in drag too.
Related: A drag queen? In a Disney movie!? It’s true…
The new film version, produced by Disney and 20th Century Films, stars newcomer Max Harwood, Lauren Patel and Oscar-nominee Richard E. Grant arrives in theatres (theoretically, anyway) January 22. Have a look, and prepare to get fabulous.
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Daggerman
..this is quite literally predictable crap, why because it tells us only about fantasy…it does NOT happen like this so therefore we are just getting teased into a unrealistic life of bullshit. A faghag utters the line…start being you! Blimey, how original is that.
Cam
Yes, because all movies are exactly how life is. I didn’t know “Pitch Perfect” and “World War Z” were documentaries.
raisinhead
It’s based on a true story so it’s not fantasy. And it’s a musical. Expecting realism from a musical is like saying “Spider-Man just wouldn’t happen that way in real life”.
shakes_head
Disney will feature gay characters if they’re skinny white twinks with curiously non-existent libidos or lesbian cyclopses. But heaven forbid we get an Oscar Isaac/John Boyega lightsaber fight.
Cam
Media executives, if they have to have an LGBTQ person in a show always wants them to be a neutered clown. Modern Family, before the backlash even tried to defend never having the gay couple show one ounce of affection.
jayceecook
The HS kid sort of reminds me of a pre meth Aaron Carter.
judysdad
Looks embarrassingly awful. What a stereotypical message: Gay boy wants to be drag queen. Not funny.
arnieca
this is a real life story about a UK teen Jamie, Campbell. there was a bbc doc. about him. he’s being played by the stunning Max Hardwood. can’t wait to see this. well, actually i can and will wait. not going into any theatres near me til there’s a vaccine.
Kangol2
It’s increasingly clear that US directors and the film industry in general do not want to focus on mature and older gay people. Instead, we get the same stories or variations of them, often verging on gross stereotypes, over and over. It’s exhausting. I’m not saying that there’s no place for a story like this, and yes, it’s based on a real life experience, but there are countless other stories of LGBTQ life, especially gay male life, that never make it to the TV or screen, and representation, or its absence, does matter.
jniceny
Yes, but this true of Hollywood in general–especially in regard to roles for women. While I am not a fan of Disney, it’s children and young people that make up their target audience.
rocknstan
What you say is so true.
“Fireflies” and “Tremors” (“Temblores”) are two recent foreign gay films that are realistic, and thus relevant.
So many gay-themed films from the States are half-witty and bitchy, and without substance.
Stick to the foreign ones for the most part.
raisinhead
So camp boys don’t get representation? This is a UK film based on a true story and has a very particular ‘northern’ humour. And it is funny though Americans will not get all the jokes. Music written by a gay man. UK films such as Rialto, Weekend, God’s Own Country very much cover gay men’s representation and are not about twinks. I think you should look deeper before your postings.