Margot Robbie is literally making a ‘big gay’ movie
Margot Robbie arrives for the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. / AFP PHOTO / Kyle GRILLOT (Photo credit should read KYLE GRILLOT/AFP/Getty Images)
Some of her fans may have been waiting for the day that Margot Robbie makes a gay movie. Well now, that time has come… a comedy musical calledĀ Big Gay Jamboree, that is. (Sorry, folks).
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Margot Robbie has signed on to produce the gay movie under her LuckyChap Entertainment company, which she co-founded withĀ Josey Mcnamara, Sophia Kerr and husband Tom Ackerley.
Margot Robbie is no stranger to producing. She’s currently acting as producer on Suicide Squad spin-off Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros)
The publication also revealed that the actor āwho was recently nominated for a BAFTA for her performance as Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of ScotsĀ āisn’t likely to star in the project.
Margot Robbie’s gay movie: Big Gay Jamboree
Big Gay Jamboree will tell the story of a young woman who awakens one day to find herselfĀ inexplicably living in a musical set in the 1940s.
Using her modern sensibilities, she starts to make friends in her setting while trying to figure out a way to get back to the present day.
THR reports that the film will be a mix between The Book of Mormon, the stage musical written by Robert Lopez and South Park‘sĀ Trey Parker and Matt Stone and 1955 classic Oklahoma!
Alethea Jones is set to direct Margot Robbie’s upcoming gay movie, Big Gay Jamboree (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
Alethea Jones is on board toĀ direct, while the script has been penned byĀ Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage.
Before they start on Big Gay Jamboree though, the former will next work with Robbie on the upcoming fantasy-drama Barbie.
Robbie is no stranger to producing. She previously acted as producer on Oscar-winning drama I, TonyaĀ and crime thriller Terminal.
LuckyChap is also behind Suicide Squad spin-offĀ Birds of PreyĀ (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)Ā which is currently in development.
