Luca Guadagnino Leads Unusual Team-Up With Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg To Make A Gay Hustler Epic
By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 29, 2020 3:00 pm EST
Searchlight has set Rogen and Goldberg to pen the script for the Scotty Bowers film directed by Guadagnino, based on the Matt Tyrnauer documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, which chronicled the exploits of the World War II Marine combat veteran-turned-hustler who secretly arranged dates for gay Hollywood movie stars from the 1940s until the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Deadline reports.
The yet-untitled feature film will center on Scotty Bowers, who became a legendary Hollywood pimp for closeted gay movie stars, arranging dates for celebrities from the 1940s through the 1980s. The documentary, which was released in 2017, is based on Bowers’ tell-all book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, which revealed how Bowers arranged these liaisons from a gas station he ran. Despite the salacious details, Bowers was beloved “because he created a safe environment for gay members of the showbiz community to hook up in secret in what otherwise would have been a much more dangerous and possibly deadly pursuit.”
Tyrnauer and his Altimeter Films partner Corey Reeser will also produce the film alongside Point Grey Pictures.
