Lee Daniels Is Making A Gay Action Hero Movie With MAGIC MIKE’s Alex Pettyfer

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Lee Daniels can pretty much do what he wants these days now that his The Butler has grossed over $100 million and is heading into the Oscar race with the wind at its back. But will notoriously timid studio execs get behind his latest idea, a gay action hero movie?

Of course, we’re not supposed to know they’re gay, but Daniels, in an interview with Out magazine pretty much revealed everything about the movie that would have been surprising:

According to Daniels, think of it as a gay “Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but the two good-looking guys as the action heroes.” The twist? “We don’t find out they’re gay until the end of the movie,” he explains.

But it’s all about the journey, not the destination, folks. And if the journey is with Alex Pettyfer, who played a slave-driver in The Butler, then we should probably enjoy the ride because, well, I’ll let Mr. Daniels explain it:

“He’s so hot, isn’t he? So hot. And so aware of his hotness in a way that’s so…I love him to death.”

Preach, Lee. Daniels says he’s looking for the right black guy to star opposite the white hottie, because if a gay action hero movie wasn’t enough, Daniels is throwing an interracial element in there to really ruffle conservative feathers.

Whether this movie ever really gets made or not is yet to be seen. But Mr. Daniels worked in genre cliche with such beautiful trashiness that I’m dying to see what he does here. Also the idea of Pettyfer and, say, Michael B. Jordon making out at the end of the movie is worth the price of admission alone.