Taylor Zakhar Perez is hoping for triple the Red, White and Royal Blue enjoyable.
The star of the LGBT romantic comedy, 32, spoke to Variety on the purple carpet on the Primetime Emmy Awards purple carpet on Sunday, Sept. 15. Requested if throughout filming he thought a sequel would observe, Perez stated, “I believe I hoped.”
A sequel to Purple, White and Royal Blue, once more costarring Perez and Nicholas Galitzine, is now in the works, distributor Amazon MGM Studios introduced on Could 10. Of the 2019 supply materials by Casey McQuiston, the Emmys presenter continued, “It was an awesome e-book and it type of left you hanging after you learn it.”
Perez then went additional in his hopes for the hit movie: “I hope that there’s three of them,” the Kissing Sales space 3 star stated. “I believe there could possibly be a pleasant trilogy.”
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Requested by Selection’s reporter whether or not Purple, White and Royal Blue might turn out to be a musical, he responded with amusing. “Hey, that may be enjoyable! So long as the musical’s humorous. We want a really humorous musical.”
Directed and co-written by Matthew López, Purple, White and Royal Blue grew to become successful upon its July 2023 launch. It costarred Uma Thurman, Sarah Shahi, Stephen Fry, Clifton Collins Jr. and Rachel Hilson.
At this yr’s Emmy Awards, the movie was nominated for excellent tv film. (The class’s winner, introduced final weekend, was Quiz Lady.)
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Speaking to PEOPLE upon the film’s launch final August, López, 47, stated that “queer audiences do not truly get to take part in fairy tales themselves too usually… It is attention-grabbing as a result of it looks like queer audiences are one of many most important customers of such tales, and but we did not have a whole lot of our personal.”
López and McQuiston, who teamed up for the primary, are writing an all-new screenplay for the sequel.
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