The Gay Disaster Movie You Didn’t Know We Needed
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If a crisis erupts on board a commercial aircraft, you want to know the flight attendants are prepared to handle any desperate situation. Chris, Wes, and Clear, the cabin crew in the comedic short Cock N’ Bull 3, are not those guys. They’re more likely to be the cause of an emergency than the ones resolving it.
Wes (Danny Rhodes) provides a running stream of non-FAA approved commentary over the PA system. Chris (Nathan Adloff) locks eyes with an older man within minutes of takeoff. Later, he tumbles out of the forward lavatory with his shirt off, apparently having just joined the Mile High Club with his gentleman friend. Clear (Pete Zias) declares, “I wanna get fucked in there!”
Things only get more chaotic on the ill-fated red eye from L.A. to New York, after the pilot mysteriously becomes incapacitated. Cock N’ Bull 3, directed by Adloff and co-written by Adloff and Rhodes, held its world premiere Friday night at the Outfest LGBTQ+ film festival in Los Angeles, playing ahead of the narrative feature God Save the Queens.
“We’re calling it the gay disaster movie we didn’t know we needed,” Adloff tells Deadline.
The creative partnership between Adloff and Rhodes dates back to the first Cock N’ Bull short, released in 2012. Their characters, Chris and Wes, appear in all three of the films, with a regular cast of performers, including Drew Droege, Joy Nash, and Verton R. Banks, returning in different roles.
“This series is sort of like an anthology,” Adloff explains. “Cock N’ Bull 3 is technically a prequel.” Adds Rhodes, “Each film is standalone, but it’s always Wes and Chris. On the first Cock N’ Bull, they’re best friends and my character Wes has just gone through a breakup. And the second one, we’re a troubled couple that decides to open up their relationship, having other people sexually involved with them to kind of get them through a dry spell in their relationship. And then in the third one, we’re meeting for the first time as flight attendants.”
The first two installments of Cock N’ Bull are available on demand through Dekkoo, Amazon Prime and Revry. Cock N’ Bull 3, meanwhile, will continue to play the festival circuit for the time being before eventually becoming available on VOD. Adloff and Rhodes tell Deadline they are considering ways to further expand the anthology going forward. They’ve come a long way with it since 2012.
“When we made the first one, we had zero plans of doing another one,” Adloff says. “I think it was because of the success it had at Outfest, and it played all over the world for a year. So we were like, well, we have to do another one.”
