“I wrote the character because I believe that sexuality is far more fluid than society does,” he told Variety. Gilroy, however, intended the portrayal to be positive. “For me what was interesting in trying to create this character was the idea of a gay man going straight for a woman and the reasons why.” “I think you have to be careful in that this is a satire,” he told Variety. Of the film, Gyllenhaal warned that it might not necessarily offer a positive portrayal of a queer man. More recently, Gyllenhaal played a bisexual man in last year’s Netflix flick Velvet Buzzsaw, directed and written by Dan Gilroy. It marks Gyllenhaal and Tesori’s second collaboration Tesori co-produced the Broadway staging of Sunday in the Park with George, which starred Gyllenhaal in the titular role. Gold is also set to direct the forthcoming film adaptation, which is being developed by Nine Stories, Gyllenhaal’s production company with Riva Marker. Dubbed by Slate as “ the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian,” its book was written by Lisa Kron, directed by Sam Gold, and scored by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Kron (lyrics).

The musical adaptation, which premiered off-Broadway in 2013 and on Broadway in 2015, won five Tony Awards in total. Fun Home sees Bechdel telling the real-life story of her coming into her own queer sexuality and coping with the suicide of her father, who was struck and killed by a truck at age 44. He’s slated to star as Bruce Bechdel, the closeted gay dad of queer cartoonist Alison Bechdel, whose 2006 graphic memoir served as inspiration for the musical. Jake Gyllenhaal has secured the rights to produce a new film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home, The Daily Mail reports.

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