According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is developing a romantic comedy from Queer Eye team member Antonio Porowski and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris that’s based on Porowski’s “real-life dating experiences as a sexually fluid man.” In other words, it’ll sort of be a solo movie spin-off about one of the Queer Eye guys, like Solo: A Star Wars Story, but (we assume) with the names changed and any associations with Queer Eye left unsaid for legal reasons. So maybe it’s not like Solo, because that movie made a big deal about its use of the name “Solo.”
Anyway, the project—which is called Girls & Boys because we already explained why it can’t be called Antoni: A Queer Eye Story—is being written by Andrew Rhymer and Jeff Chan, the writers behind Netflix’s Plus One, with Porowski and Barris executive producing. We don’t know much else, but THR implies that this is all fairly early, so it might be a while before we see Antoni: A Queer Eye Story… err, Girls & Boys.
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unless it confirms my theory that Antoni is secretly a Patrick Bateman esque person who kills people with glee whilst on location filming Queery Eye, i ain’t watchin’ it.
I mean…he’s just so dreamy. How could you not watch?!!
Is Kenya Barris really the person we want doing this? I binged the first few seasons of Black-ish and wasn’t overly impressed with its handling of things gay. It seemed fine in normalizing Dre’s gay panic, and I remember there seemed to be a couple of cringy things about how they handled his sister, though it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen it and can’t remember specifics.And I don’t necessarily have problems with individual characters who are problematic with LGBTQ issues, cause if every character were perfect, it’d get pretty boring. But Dre never seemed to get called on his crap.
I think the reason he’s doing it is because he’s the sitcom person they signed to a very expensive development deal so presumably they’re hooking him up with as many of their other assets as possible.