Apple TV is producing an eight-part series about Siegfried & Roy.  But that’s not the news.  The fact that it’s based on the podcast Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy is also not the news.  That it’s being written and produced by the co-creator of Only Murders in the Building isn’t even the news.  The big news is that the magic men will be portrayed by Jude Law and Andrew Garfield!  The producers are calling the series “a wild ride relationship tale of two of the greatest showman-magicians in history who, along with their white tigers, are tasked with turning Sin City into a family-friendly destination.  The duo push the concept of illusion versus reality to the extreme, personally and professionally, until tragedy reframes and opens a mystery surrounding their last fateful Las Vegas show.”  Filming is set to start later this summer.

This isn’t the only high-profile gay project.  Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke was a book based on a true story.  Tom Crosslin and Rolland “Rollie” Rohm were a gay couple who built a “pot-friendly utopia” in Michigan back in the ‘90s.  It was billed as a “retreat for cannabis advocates and the LGBTQ community.”  I don’t know anything more than what the press release says – which is that “their story ends with a deadly standoff with the police”.  Once again, the big news is that the gay couple will be played by Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall.  This theatrical film is set to come out next summer.

Strangers on a Beach is described as a period piece – although I have enormous difficulty calling something from a year I can remember “a period piece”.  Be that as it may, San Francisco in 1983 was when a serial killer stalked gay men on the beach – hence the title.  In this case, two of the men become intimate – Zane Phillips (no stranger to onscreen intimacy) and Jelani Alladin (ditto).  The film debuted at the Big Apple Film Festival in NYC last week, and we hear it was warmly received.