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Studios said Liberace biopic ‘too gay’ for theaters
Matt Damon, who will play the longtime lover of flamboyant musician Liberace, played by Michael Douglas. (Photo by Miguel Angel Azua Garcia via wikimedia commons)
According to the Academy Award winning director of the upcoming Liberace biopic, “Behind the Candelabra,” Hollywood still isn’t ready for this kind of love story.
Discussing the film with the New York Post Friday, Steven Soderbergh said that though he intended the film about the flamboyant musician played by Michael Douglas and his longtime lover, played by Matt Damon for theatrical release, it will be released on cable network HBO instead because studios were hesitant to take on the project.
“Nobody would make it,” Soderbergh told The Post. “We went to everybody in town. They all said it was too gay.”
“And this is after ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ by the way, which is not as funny as this movie. I was stunned. It made no sense to any of us.”
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Lots of discussion already on Facebook about this brief I posted on the Liberace biopic a bit ago. What do you think?
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this is a hollywood free publicity stunt as always
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I wouldn't go see it. Too tame/lame after the studio did everything to 'de-gay' it, and we all know his story. Nothing to see here, unless Matt takes off his clothes…
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when and where will it air?
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Seriously? Too Gay! WTF is 'too gay?'….that's like us saying that all those damn movies we sit through are 'too straight!'
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Truth is, every major Hollywood film in the last 30 years that dealt with gay-male relationships — even "Milk" — have done poorly at the box office. The reason? Too many straight males — who, after all, make up half of the movie-going public — simply refuse to see these films until they're released to video.
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