‘Fire Island’ Star Matt Rogers Hopes Movie Launches ‘Fast & Furious’-Like Franchise ‘For Queers’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Searchlight Pictures’ “Fire Island” doesn’t come out until June, but Matt Rogers, who plays Luke in the queer rom- com, has high hopes that it launches a big gay franchise.Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang star as friends who head to the iconic LGBTQ vacation locale ready to have the best summer of their lives. “‘Provincetown’ should be the sequel,” Rogers told me at the premiere of his Showtime show “I Love That for You.” “Let’s do ‘Palm Springs.’ Let’s do ‘Puerto Vallarta.’ This is going to be the ‘Fast & Furious for queers!”Then Rogers, who co-hosts the “Las Culturistas” podcast with Yang, cracks, “I’m the Michelle Rodriguez of the bunch, baby.” As I was the first to report, “Fire Island” will world premiere on June 2 at NewFest Pride in NYC.
It begins streaming on Hulu the following day. And this just in! I’ll be moderating a panel at RuPaul’s DragCon in Los Angeles on May 14 with Rogers and Kim as well as “RuPaul Drag Race” stars Jan and Yuhua Hamasaki.…Jazmyn Simon says don’t be surprised if a fourth “Psych” movie gets green- lit. “As long as the fans want them, we will do them,” says Simon, who plays Selene in the film franchise based on the series of the same name. “I’ll just drop that little tidbit right there.
As long as the fans are engaged, there will be more ‘Psych’ movies.” Simon becomes a first-time author this week with the release of her children’s book “Most Perfect You,” about a Black mom who explains to her daughter why she’s beautiful just the way she is.
Simon says she wrote the book after the murder of George Floyd; she was inspired by a moment when her and husband Dulé Hill’s then-3-year-old daughter.
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