If it feels prefer it’s taken far too lengthy for LGBTQ+ filmmakers to be given the shot at making a studio romantic comedy that truly represents them (and options LGBTQ+ actors in all the principle roles), it’s. However Billy Eichner has now co-written and is starring in Common’s new comedy Bros, which has its first, purple band trailer on-line.

Eichner performs Bobby Leiber, an out and outspoken podcaster who’s approached by a giant film studio to jot down a homosexual rom-com “that straight folks can get pleasure from”. To this point, so meta… However Bobby can be dealing with the prospect that he may need really discovered somebody he can tolerate being in a relationship with (Luke Macfarlane’s Aaron) — if Bobby can simply get out of his personal manner.

“It’s my pleasure — and really one of the crucial thrilling moments of my life — to share the world premiere of the primary trailer for my film, Bros, with you,” says Eichner in an announcement that was despatched initially to LGBTQ+ media. “From the very starting of creating Bros, I let everybody concerned know that, whereas I needed to make a film that was hilarious and relatable to everybody, at first I needed to make a film that felt genuine for the LGBTQ of us that the film is about — and who’ve been so profoundly underserved by Hollywood over time, significantly the key film studios. From the storytelling to the casting to the crew, it was essential for me that the wants of LGBTQ+ folks had been being prioritized.”

He continues: “As you already know, Bros is historic in a number of methods. It’s the primary homosexual rom ever launched by a serious studio, it’s the primary main studio movie with an all LGBTQ+ solid in all of the roles — even the straight roles — and apparently I’m the primary overtly homosexual man to ever write and star in his personal main studio movie, which is weird and infuriating however in some way true. However other than all of the historic statistics connected to it, what I needed most of all was to make an genuine, hilarious and heartfelt movie about what it’s prefer to be a single grownup homosexual man making an attempt a relationship in 2022. I’m prouder of it than something I’ve ever finished — and I hope you’ll be pleased with it too.”

Ts Madison, Monica Raymund, Guillermo Díaz, Man Branum, Bowen Yang, Jim Rash and Amanda Bearse are additionally all within the film, which was co-written and directed by Nicholas Stoller with Judd Apatow producing.

Bros might be in cinemas on 28 October.