‘Bros’ Trailer Sparks the Honest Real Talk Gay Convo We Need To Be Having Yesterday
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Our first glimpse at Hollywood’s first all LGBT cast in a gay movie has arrived in the form of our first NSFW trailer for Bros and directed by Nicholas Stoller from his screenplay with Billy Eichner.
Eichner and actor Luke McFarlane keep it real and do not disappoint. Real in a way that we should’ve been having an honest conversation yesterday so I will not indulge in the histrionics on Twitter.
Lainey Gossip sums up it up best:
The first trailer for Bros made me laugh out loud twice, and I am immediately invested in the romantic potential of Eichner playing an uptight podcaster—feels like “podcaster” is the new quirky arts-ish job to have in movies, like “baker” or “event planner” used to be—who has a spiky attraction with a jock-type played by Luke Macfarlane. That bit where Macfarlane says, “I like someone who’s physically very frail and won’t stop talking” is perfect. Great delivery, and reluctant attraction is a great rom-com set up—there’s a reason Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are one of the great literary couples of all time. Of course, Macfarlane should be able to deliver romantic dialogue in his sleep by now, he’s a regular in the Hallmark Christmas Movie Industrial Complex, although these two and a half minutes of Bros are better written than any Hallmark movie I’ve ever seen. Also, interesting to see this has a late September release date. Fall festival premiere, perhaps? Don’t just bring back rom-coms and make them queer, bring back rom-coms, make them queer, AND given them glamorous festival premieres. Go all out, it’s overdue.
Bros is the first LGBTQ+ romantic comedy green-lit by a major studio. Eichner co-wrote, produced, and is one of two male leads in the Universal Pictures film. He’s the first out gay man to ever write and star in his own major studio film. The film follows Eichner as a podcast host hired by a studio to pen a gay romantic comedy.
“From the very beginning of developing Bros, I let everyone involved know that, 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 — and who have been so profoundly underserved by Hollywood over the years, particularly the major movie studios. From the storytelling to the casting to the crew, it was crucial for me that the needs of LGBTQ+ people were being prioritized,” Eichner said in a statement announcing the trailer’s release.
Every major cast member in the film is LGBTQ+, including Luke Macfarlane, Amanda Bearse, Harvey Fierstein, Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Symone, Miss Lawrence, Guillermo Diaz, and Guy Branum. Even the straight parts are portrayed by LGBTQ+ actors.
“This movie is a long time coming. But here we are,” Eichner said. “The era of Bros is upon us!”
Watch the trailer below.
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU, Ron DeSantis!!! The BROS trailer is HERE!!! pic.twitter.com/mxITsZxHsx
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) May 18, 2022
Bros is only In Theaters September 30.
This fall, Universal Pictures proudly presents the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They’re both very busy.
From the ferocious comic mind of Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, 2019’s The Lion King, Difficult People, Impeachment: American Crime Story) and the hitmaking brilliance of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller (the Neighbors films, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (The King of Staten Island, Trainwreck, The Big Sick), comes Bros, a smart, swoony and heartfelt comedy about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go through life with.
Starring Billy Eichner, the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film—and featuring an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, including Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys), Ts Madison (The Ts Madison Experience), Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire), Guillermo Díaz (Scandal), Guy Branum (The Other Two) and Amanda Bearse (Married …with Children)—Bros is directed by Nicholas Stoller from his screenplay with Eichner.
The film is produced by Judd Apatow, Stoller and Joshua Church (co-producer Trainwreck, Step Brothers) and is executive produced by Eichner.
