Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins Forbidden Love Drama in the Works From J.J. Abrams, Zachary Quinto

Colton Haynes for Tab Hunter

Timothee Chalamet would be good as Perkins, but he probably won't want to do another gay love story so soon after CMBYN

JJ Abrams???

No gay love scenes, only lots and lots of heterosexual romance.

Their gayness was a sickness, no doubt, which is why Perkins ex-gayed himself.

What makes you think Abrams is homophobic, r3?

Ezra Miller or Corey Michael Smith for Anthony Perkins.

And they are both "openly queer" to boot.

I read a Perkins biography and I've seen the Hunter doc. I didn't get the impression that it was any great love affair.

I'd be interested to hear Grover Dale speak extensively on his relationship with Perkins. Didn't he and his wife live below Mrs & Mrs Perkins after Grover and Tony had split?

Any evidence he isn't r4? He's had ample chances.

r7 Well, he's producing this, isn't he? No one's forcing him to.

Right, and it will show how straight love wins out over seedy gay love, of course.

JJ Abrams is NO friends of The Gays.

They fucked. It wasn't love. See the pic .... special "guest appearance" by Tab Hunter himself, 86, imagining young Arty Kelm.

r9 I can't see how that could happen, with both Quinto and Glaser attached.

What's Koenigsberg's stake in this, I wonder? I see he's produced the 'Tab Hunter Confidential' documentary from 2015 as well, but no much else before that. Is he Glaser's friend?

Ezra or Andrew Garfield for Perkins. With Garfield you get the closet angle as well. For Tab you need that aw shucks friendly but not too bright vibe.

Timothee Chalamet as Anthony Perkins? You realize Anthony Perkins played Norman Bates, not Marion Crane?

It would be nice if at least one of the two actors was openly gay. Just for once.

Will it include Anthony paying male hookers to sneak in to his apartment and "rape" him?

Andrew Garfield as Tony Perkins

Who will play Roddy MacDowell?

I can’t be the only one who confuses Tab Hunter and Troy Donahue right?

JJ Abrams is one of those "liberal" straight guys who LOVE lesbians but always either don't shoe MALE homosexuality because it's icky to them or ignore it altogether

There's TONS of them

Most anti Trump stuff on the internet is straight liberal guys attacking Trump by alluding that he and Putin have a thing. They think it's hilarious because deep down inside them the worst thing a man can be is gay

The liberal media NEVER calls these guys out

Why a fucking film on closet cases who chose to stay in the closet? Also, hunter was an endlessly untalented actor, not one single good role

Who's playing Henry Willson?

Troy was the straight one. And he's dead.

R20, go read about Confidential Magazine and the publicists who would offer up info on lesser names like George Nader in order to squelch stories on Tab, Rock, and other gay actors.

Why a fucking film on closet cases who chose to stay in the closet?

Yeah, we should totally forget about oppression because it'll never happen again, right?

RIGHT?!?!? TELL ME THAT I'M RIGHT!!!!!

Yes, let's go back in history to make a film about out gay men. Oh right, it's called vintage porn.

Jesus, I thought DL was safe from Trump crackpots. Now R19 is here.

You know what to do, guys. The best way to make these trolls disappear is to ignore them completely. They thrive on the attention that they don't get from family/friends/any single male or female out there. Getting into an argument with them is a waste of time because they don't care about logic, they only care about getting a rise out of people.

Apply this strategy on any other site where you see a Trump troll saying stupid shit. Also, laugh at their anger as they know their orange-faced leader is about to get destroyed by Mueller, no matter how much they stick their heads in the sand or keep their TV stations on Fox News.

Summer of 1992, I worked at baseball fantasy camp at which former Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall was one of the "legends". I was assigned to pick him up at the airport, take him to a personal appearance/autograph signing at a sporting goods store in the suburbs, and then back to his hotel.

As we drove to the appearance, Jimmy sorta side-eyed me and asked if I even knew who he was. (I was 24 years-old...and female). I said yes, I knew he was one of the best outfielders of his time, a 2x all-star & golden-glove winner (politely glossing over mental issues). But then he asked, "Did you know they made a movie about me?"

Oh, we're going there? Okay. "Um, yeah....but I've never seen it."

To which he replied: "Oh well, that's fine. I hated it. That FAG Tony Perkins played me in the theatrical movie, and then they had another FAG, Tab Hunter, play me in the t.v. version!"

So Piersall was a repressed closet case, then?

Except that Tab played Jimmy Piersall first in the TV version and then Tony pursued and won the film role which is, apparently, one of the reasons they broke up their relationship.

[quote]"Did you know they made a movie about me?"

How pathetic, wanting to impress a random handler he'd never talk to again after this. And probably a major closet case as well.

Scott Eastwood is always an option.

DL fave Lucas Hedges would be a great choice, no?

Andrew Garfield was born to play young Tony Perkins. Any blond, bland twink can play Tab.

How is Ryan Murphy not involved?

I guess he prefers TV still?

Tom&Lorenzo seem excited about this. They had Tab on their podcast a couple of years ago.

Don't worry r34, before too long this will morph into a Betty vs. Joan mini-novella. Expect all the camp late 50's faces.

How about DL faves Tommy and Gio? One of them could go blond.

Amen,r33_the Garfield casting of Perkins is the easy part. But no one acting today has that sunny,Cali look that was Tab Hunters signature. Unless they cast an unknown IG model/actor and even Hunter would take a back seat to his own story,given the drama that Perkins life is known for...

If Armie Hammer really goes blonde he has the build and that Cali vibe to play Tab

I really don't see how this would be an interesting plot. Neither of those two actors were particularly interesting. Perkins definitely moreso than Tab Hunter (who did, at least, write an autobio where he outed himself), though. Perkins had one iconic role. Hunter had none. But, aside from seeing an accurate visual depiction of Hollywood in the 50's and 60's (vintage clothes, cars and houses, etc.) in hi-def, what story is there? Both actors stayed in the closet and did what their studios told them to do for the sake of their careers. And.....scene. What is film-worthy about that?

I always found Perkins unsexy and creepy. And it has nothing to do with his Psycho role. I recently saw him in THE ACTRESS (1953) and he was a young man...still creepy and without any sexual appeal kind of a nerdy guy...I don't get how Tab Hunter would want to hit that as he could probably get anyone at that time...That's the power of Love !

As long as they don't cast Zac Effron I'm fine with it

your lips to god's ears

[quote]One of them could go blond.

Tommy already thinks and acts like a blonde.

Armie Hammer is already too old to play the Tab Hunter of 1957. And really not good looking enough.

I've always been a huge Tab Hunter fan and, having seen him in so many personal appearance TV clips over many decades, he always (and still does) come across as a genuinely sincere and sweet, and dare I say, somewhat innocent and unassuming, guy.

Tony Perkins, OTOH, was just the opposite. Very paranoid and suspicious.....you can even see it in the photo at r36. And in those Roddy MacDowall Malibu home movies, Tony is the only celeb clearly uncomfortable with being filmed, even by a close friend at a private casual party.

So there's the great tension of this secret love affair between 2 huge young male stars who are entirely different in every way but their sexual preference. I'm very intrigued and hope it gets an arty and quirky take, not unlike Gods and Monsters....not just a straight up double bio pic.

Tony Award-winning Broadway playwright Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) is writing the screenplay, so there's hope.

I hope there are lots of sex scenes with Tab pounding Tony.

Enough with fug am I ? aren’t I? Garfield already.

Openly gay, better looking actor right fucking here:

Jack for Tab?

Billy Magnussen and Andrew Garfield

R51 nails it.

Whoever is cast will have to submit to being barebacked by Quinto as part of their contract.

With Lauren Ambrose as Gwen Verdon.

It's a good thing that they weren't a couple when those mash-up names came into fashion-- we'd undoubtedly be referring to them as "Tabby."

Billy seems a bit undercooked for the part. Matches very well facially though

They need a more "sincere" actor than Billy Magnussen for Tab.

Billy Magnussen? You fight as well suggest Connor from Corbin Fisher.

Anyway, he and Garfield are too old.

Tab Hunter, Out of the Hollywood Closet and in His Own Words.-

"The film takes a good long look at Hunter’s affairs with athletes and actors, including the elusive Anthony Perkins who was more protective of his sexuality before dying, still married to wife Berry Berenson, of AIDS-related causes in 1992. Can you imagine two stars like Hunter and Perkins showing up together at a movie premiere today? The world would end.

Hunter meanwhile maintained camera-friendly relationships with women including pal Natalie Wood and French actress Etchika Choureau, who barely spoke English and almost married him."

Arthur Darvill as Grover Dale.

hey guyz wat about me? :/

Ya can't act for shit Kellen. Even presenting hole barely get you work.

I'm hoping at some point we hear this line:

TAB: "Why did they give me such a STUPID screen name?!"

What a perfect name for this thespian. Tab:: a small insert, addition, or remnant

And NO calories, r64!

Alex Pettyfer IS Tab Hunter!!!

lhiooi

KJ Apa as Tab Hunter and Cole Sprouse as Perkins

I'm sad Tab won't get to see this movie now.

Anthony Perkins was such a cutie pie.

RIP Tab!!!

A sad day. R I P Tab Hunter.

KJ Apa has quite coarse features. Not at all like Tab Hunter.

Alexander Ludwig for Tab...

....

jj will be playing la tab...

matt bomer for tab !!!!!

yesssssssssssssss

Whoever plays Tab will need a million-megawatt smile.

Bomer, Magnussen, Garfield are too old. Apa looks more like Perkins.

J.J. Abrams and Zachary Quinto have the guts to offer James Badge Dale the part of his father Grover Dale, the man who broke up Anthony and Tab?

I think this might be good

r81, i'm pretty sure that's a picture of Jamie Bamber. Is there a connection?

R83 is correct

That's not James Badge Dale

Jack Davenport for Anthony Perkins

I like Tab a lot more than Anthony. Anthony died closeted and involved/marrried to women, claiming that homosexuality was immoral. Fuck that self-loathing dipshit. Tab eventually came out, and before that, had begged his manager to let him do Polyester, which pretty much outed him in 1980. I hope Tab enjoyed tapping Anthony's ass, but he was far more cool (and hot) than Anthony.

I hope someone grabbed his DNA. Imagine looking this good in your mid-80s.

I don't think of Quinto when I think of Perkins. Maybe Andrew Garfield

Garfield would be good

if you look at photos thru the decades of who Hunter had as partners ie; ( pictured in his book) you will see the physical type he had, and Perkins fit it to a tee. Also, I think I read Perkins was packing...............

r1 Visually I can see Colton Haynes being a good fit but acting wise is he up to such a role and the emotional depth required? I am not trying to criticise him as I have not seen much of his acting work but I wasn't sure indeed am not sure if these kind of roles are his forte?

Any word anyway on when this film will be out?

They have to be black.

They have to be transgender.

Evan Peters would be a perfect Tab. He just needs to re-dye his hair, bulk up and stick on some blue contacts.

Anthony Perkins was actually quite beautiful during his years with Tab.

Andrew Garfield has never been beautiful.

Agreeing with an above poster - I could see Alexander Ludwig working as Tab.

Jonathan Tucker is probably too old now but when younger and leaner would have been a good Anthony.

What about Timmy as Anthony?

Alexander's eyes are too close-set.

Evan's eyes, cheekbones, ears and nose all match with Tab's.

Uncanny.

For comparison.

r96 Meow !!Put those claws away!

Has this been cancelled yet? Who the fuck cares about two c list closeted actors that never were ever really famous or loved or cared about?

I haven't heard that it has been cancelled? r104

Projects like this don't get cancelled, they just fade into the background.

R106 True, when they cannot raise the money, and few people need or want this flick

R104, Perkins was definitely not "c list" at the peak if his fame. If you don't care why are you even posting in this thread?

R108 What was that really good film Tab made? Name just one good film Tab made....I shall wait

R109: No, he was not. And since when you need to be a good actor or made good movies to be an A list in HW?

R110 Are you retarded?

[quote] Who the fuck cares about two c list closeted actors that never were ever really famous or loved or cared about?

If it’s well written and casts two attractive leads who will simulate sex where the man goes up into the other man then I am definitely interested.

R112 Or just watch pron

I'm surprised JJ Abrams is involved. Is this his first project including gays in a starring role? I'm rewatching Lost, and not only are there no gay characters (aside from one minor one in the later seasons, and it was the actor's idea) the show also glorifies Christianity more than I'd remembered.

Felicity was like the gayest show ever, despite being about heterosexuals.

Hello, Hunter Parrish is a decent actor and -regardless of his age - he certainly can look like young Tab Hunter.

Its an important film to make because it can help demonstrate how horrible life was for gays during that time, both in and out of Hollywood.

r116 Christian

thre were a lot of people that were into Perkins in his day. I got the impression he was very bright, offbeat, and Im kind of going to guess he was packing...........certainly an attractive combination. He wasnt necessarilly a public heartthrob however/

I enjoyed Hunters biography and he seemed well grounded and a like a very nice guy but maybe a bit bland/

It may not be a popular opinion, but I'd prefer actual gay/bi actors

It's a popular opinion R120, but not a practical one. There's a dearth of gay/bi actors who are both young [bold]and[/bold] attractive.

That is, unless DL fave Connor Jessup can gain 40 lbs of lean muscle in 6-12 months.

Please, there are plenty of gay actors who are young and attractive.....most of them are closeted, though

I don’t remember it being a big love affair when I read Tab’s book.

I would rather see the time, money, and energy spent on making a movie about Cary Grant and Randolph Scott’s relationship. That I would pay to see.

[quote]Please, there are plenty of gay actors who are young and attractive.....

But any who look like Tab?

There are not too many actors who are as attractive e asthese two were. Ezra Miller could play Perkins, in my opinion.

People who pretend that we should ignore history...so that we can paint the history books with flowers and rainbows, what a bunch of assholes?

Good grief! Jack who? Honestly, that guy is not attractive.

While I guess there are some who would say that Tab was just a generic pretty boy blonde, I would really disagree. There was a unique and incredible charisma there in that sunny look. He was very special and I don't see any names here who quite capture it.

I think Chris Pine is attractive but is he young enough?

None of the suggested actors so far have come close to tabs looks. As for whether they had a romance I think in his book Tab makes it clear that it was an on going relationship. He doesn't come off as the type who was into casual hook ups either. Very proper in fact....dare I even say romantic.

Hunter serving Hunter

The film will never be made unless they can secure a name, and since there are so few name actors who can pull off Tony Perkins (literally, it’s just Andrew Garfield) there is a very small chance of this being made. If it does up get made, it will still probably go only to streaming, given that it lacks the traditional “weepy” nature of these types of gay movies which generally make them more commercial to mainstream audiences.

And remember even The Normal Heart with its large name cast and weepy storyline was unable to get a theatrical distribution deal so they made it for HBO.

An ideal Perkins project would be told in miniseries format and deal with different episodes of his life and many lovers. There was nothing particularly notable about his romance with Hunter. He was with Grover Dale for much longer.

And frankly any interesting Perkins project would have to cover his later years and his unhappiness with being typecast with Psycho.

Not at all. Boy meets boy, boy steals plum acting role from boy, boy moves on.

The fact that they were two of the hottest young male movie stars of the repressed 1950s having a secret and intense year-long affair is fairly notable, r135.

Will they include a scene where Anthony pays rent boys who pretend to be intruders and fuck him in the ass?

Exactly, r138.

At least we know who was the top.