Roland Emmerich to direct first gay movie

Roland Emmerich to direct first gay movie

Director Roland Emmerich is about to deviate from his usual huge-budget disaster films once again, as he confirmed that his next film will be "Stonewall", a film regarding the gay rights movement.
Empire Online reported that Emmerich was trying to squeeze in a tiny project before he focuses on filming the sequel "Independence Day Forever" and he has set his sights on "Stonewall".
The film is ready to chronicle the events leading up to the twenty eight June 1969 police raid on the Mafia-owned Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village. The raid incited a massive push within the gay rights movement, not solely in the United States but additionally around the globe.
Jeremy Irvine ("War Horse") is set to headline the film as a country boy who experiences a political awakening when he joins a cluster of revolutionaries in New York and along they start a riot to vary the planet.
"It's one of those civil rights moments, like Rosa Parks," Emmerich said. "And very little is understood about it. Even gay people do not recognize much concerning it. There are solely two books written concerning it. It was the primary time that gay folks had shown the police that they should take them serious. And when the riot police came – this has continuously been fascinating on behalf of me – these kids shaped a chorus line and sang 'We tend to are the village girls, we wear our hair in curls!' It was such a cool factor."
"Stonewall" is scheduled to start shooting this year with plans to complete before the start of filming for "Independence Day Forever".