Anyone who’s seen the documentary The Case Against 8 will know that the story of the defeat of California’s Proposition 8 played out like a Hollywood movie. However Tinsel Town has held off but now it seems they’re interested in the more recent US Supreme Court decision that extended marriage equality right across the States.
The New York Times reports that Fox 2000 is developing a movie about the lead plaintiff in the case, Jim Obergefell, and has also purchased the rights to the life of his lawyer, Al Gerhardstein.
As NYT notes, ‘Mr. Obergefell, an Ohio real estate agent, married his longtime partner, John Arthur, in 2013 in Maryland. When Mr. Arthur died, Ohio refused to list Mr. Obergefell as his spouse on the death certificate, so Mr. Obergefell sued.’
The fight went through the legal system until it finally ended up before the Supreme Court, who in June ruled in favour of Obergefell. The justices’ decision that marriage equailty was guaranteed under the US Constitution ensured that same sex marriage had to be rolled out across the nation. However, while most have concentrated on the result, it shouldn’t be forgotten that it was a story of love that underpinned the historic decision.
Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, who produced the Twilight movies, are behind the movie, which will be largely based around a book proposal by Obergefell and journalist Debbie Cenziper, called 21 Years to Midnight.
Don’t expect to see it all that soon, as it’s very early days and it’s not expected to be in cinemas for at least two years.
Peter Parker/Spider-man is getting younger as he morphs from Andrew Garfield into the form of 18-year-old Tom Holland, and it appears his Aunt May may be getting a few years knocked off her too. While the character has traditionally looked like someone who could have been Peter grandmother, this time around she may be played by 50-year-old Marisa Tomei.
Chris Pine hasn’t had a huge amount of luck as a leading man outside the Star Trek franchise – and in his case it really does seem like bad luck, as he is pretty good. He’ll be hoping for a hit with The Finest Hours, which looks like it’ll be mixing action, pathos and a bit of a period feel.
For years there’s been talk of a Goosebumps movie – after all it’s one of the biggest selling series of children’s book ever – but they’d never quite found a way to make it work. Now they’re doing it meta-movie style, with Jack Black playing Goosebumps author R.L. Stine, whose books actually keep creepiness out of the real world.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, Bridge Of Spies is a dramatic thriller which tells the story of James Donovan (Tom Hanks), a Brooklyn insurance claims lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
From the moment it was announced that Disney planned to intersperse its main new Star Wars movies with a series of stand-alone tales set in a galaxy far, far away, there’s been speculation that this would include a look at a young Han Solo.
Polari is a rather fascinating part of Britain’s gay past – a dialect that since the 16th Century was used and developed by various underclasses from fairground showmen (some of whom still use a form of it) to prostitutes, and which had its last flowering amongst gay men before virtually dying out in the 1970s.
Timothy Conigrave’s memoir Holding The Man is beloved by many, especially amongst people in its native Australia, where the book has already become a stage play and is now a film.
