“While I wanted to make a movie that was hilarious and relatable to everyone, first and foremost I wanted to make a movie that felt authentic for the LGBTQ folks that the movie is about,” Eichner said in a press release. “What I wanted most of all was to make an authentic, hilarious, and heartfelt film about what it’s like to be a single adult gay man attempting a relationship in 2022.”
And it looks like Bros will pack plenty of insider laughs about gay sex and dating that haven’t been shown on this scale from Hollywood before.
Though the premise may not exactly seem like groundbreaking territory, remember Bros is coming from Universal Pictures, the makers of franchise juggernauts like Jurassic World and The Fast and the Furious. Directed by Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and produced by Judd Apatow, it’s a big bet that mainstream (read: not just queer) audiences will turn out for a movie with a poster features two guys grabbing each other’s asses.
Here’s hoping Bros opens the cineplex doors for a diverse array of queer rom coms in the near future.
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