{"id":31646,"date":"2020-07-21T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/our-lady-j-to-write-rub-tug-series-with-trans-actor-replacing-scarlett-johansson\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:38:00","slug":"our-lady-j-to-write-rub-tug-series-with-trans-actor-replacing-scarlett-johansson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/our-lady-j-to-write-rub-tug-series-with-trans-actor-replacing-scarlett-johansson\/","title":{"rendered":"#Our Lady J to write \u2018Rub & Tug\u2019 series with trans actor replacing Scarlett Johansson"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Our Lady J to write \u2018Rub & Tug\u2019 series<\/a> with trans actor replacing Scarlett Johansson<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n By Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

July 21, 2020 |<\/span> 3:38pm <\/p>\n

\n EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: New Regency will redevelop \u201cRub & Tug\u201d into a TV series, with the pilot to be written by Emmy-nominated writer\/producer, Our Lady J. There is also a commitment to cast a trans actor to play the show\u2019s lead role of Dante \u201cTex\u201d Gill, the infamous transgender gangster who became an unlikely major figure in the criminal underworld of \u201970s Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

When Deadline first broke news<\/a> that New Regency had won a script<\/a> auction for Gill\u2019s story with Scarlett Johansson attached to play Gill and Rupert Sanders directing, an outcry followed in the LGBTQ community, and the ensuing pressure prompted the exit of Johansson \u2014 who had previously been maligned for the Sanders-directed Japanese anime<\/a> adaptation \u201cGhost in the Shell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gill was a larger-than-life character who took on the mob and became the crime kingpin of 1970s Pittsburgh through her empire of illicit massage parlors and an anabolic steroids ring that helped fuel the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 NFL dynasty, all the while cross-dressing and leaning on her allies in the gay community to help grow an empire. Gill\u2019s romance with girlfriend Cynthia forms the emotional core of the story.<\/p>\n

Dark Castle Entertainment and Material Pictures are also on board as producers. Cindy Bruno Gill, the widow of the show\u2019s central figure Gill, as well as journalist and author Brendan Koerner, will serve as consultants on the project. Koerner\u2019s research and writing on Pittsburgh\u2019s Massage Parlor War was part of the original rights package, as was the participation and life rights of Cindy Bruno Gill. Sam Hanson and Ed Rubin will run point for New Regency Television International. Ethan Erwin and Hal Sadoff will run point for Dark Castle Entertainment.<\/p>\n

In building an illicit empire, Gill tangled with the local mafia and became a key player in the city\u2019s Red Light District \u201cMassage Parlor War.\u201d Tex\u2019s inner circle, many of them LGBTQ and therefore forced to the fringes of society after experiencing discrimination, found a leader in Tex they could relate to and believe in. Together, Tex and his allies defended their turf against rival criminals, corrupt politicians, and the law. Gill\u2019s establishments included the Spartacus, the Japanese Meditation Temple and the Taurean. A former blacksmith with a long rap sheet of providing prostitutes, Gill was a colorful figure known to drink and spout Irish poetry and be the life of the party. When law enforcement raided Spartacus in 1978, Gill reportedly threw a birthday cake at an undercover state trooper. Gill\u2019s notoriety prompted The Pittsburgh Press to award Tex the \u201cDubious Man of the Year\u201d and \u201cDubious Woman of the Year\u201d titles, explaining: \u201cShe embodies business savvy, sexual confusion and an eye for fashion like no one since Michael Jackson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gill\u2019s brazen defiance of the mob left the question who would end Gill first: rival criminal enterprises or law enforcement. One of Gill\u2019s employees at the Gemini was killed after she opened a letter bomb that leveled the place. Another massage parlor was burned to the ground in a suspicious fire that killed several others. But it was law enforcement that brought Gill to heel in 1984 on income tax fraud. Gill was sentenced to a 13-year prison stretch, but got three years taken off in an agreement to close three massage parlors within 24 hours. Gill was released in 1987 and died at age 72.<\/p>\n

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Here is where I fall on my sword: I broke that first movie deal story and thought it had such a compelling plot line, a different version of \u201cGoodfellas,\u201d that I found the notion of shaming Johansson out of a job to be unfair, since it would kill a worthy $30 million budget film with major distribution. My research indicated that Gill did not seek gender reassignment surgery until after leaving prison, and there were references in \u201970s Pittsburgh press accounts to Gill\u2019s wardrobe choices being necessary in a business filled with male gangsters. It troubled me that many, including GLAAD, took a victory lap because these projects are hard enough to make in the best of circumstances and here was one that was killed, along with supporting cast jobs that could have gone to LGBTQ actors. I was wrong and tone deaf. The resurrection of the project becomes an important moment for a section of the acting community too often marginalized or ignored.<\/p>\n

Nick Adams, GLAAD\u2019s Director of Transgender Representation, believed this is a step in the right direction: \u201cIndustry leaders are hearing, and even joining, the call to hire talented and experienced transgender storytellers like Our Lady J to tell trans stories. Authentic trans stories are compelling and largely untold, and when told well they attract acclaim from audiences, critics and award shows, as we\u2019ve seen with \u201cPose\u201d and \u201cA Fantastic Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our Lady J, most recently Emmy-nominated for \u201cPose\u201d with several WGA noms for \u201cTransparent,\u201d said: \u201cTex\u2019s life story is like no other, and the rich landscape of this unexplored moment in time has truly captured my imagination. I couldn\u2019t be more excited about the opportunity to write a gangster drama based on such a fascinating and diverse web of queer characters. The show is about the promise of reinvention, and the peril of losing oneself in the process. Tex Gill was out and proud in an era \u2013 the late 1970s \u2013 when living authentically came with the price of social<\/a> ostracization, leaving him vulnerable to a life of crime and lawlessness. Having grown up in Pennsylvania myself, I\u2019m also excited to delve deep into Pittsburgh\u2019s underbelly as it unspools the story of Tex\u2019s remarkable life \u2013 it\u2019s also the story of a city\u2019s struggle for rebirth and a proud community\u2019s efforts to make its voice heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cindy Bruno Gill added, \u201cI am excited to be working with Our Lady J and New Regency to honor Tex\u2019s memory by telling his story the way he would want to be remembered. Tex was transgender at a time when being transgender meant facing great discrimination, yet he was fearless about being himself in a way that inspired those who knew him to be proud of who they were too. Our Lady J is the perfect person to give voice to Tex\u2019s story, and I know he would be proud of the evolution of this project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said New Regency chairman\/CEO Yariv Milchan: \u201cTex\u2019s anti-hero story deserves to come to life in a show that will embrace the politics of power, gender and sexuality. Our Lady J\u2019s acclaimed status writing for and with the LGBTQ community will bring authenticity and dignity to this rich world of characters, and we have no doubt it\u2019s a series that will resonate with audiences everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our Lady J was the first out trans woman to perform at Carnegie Hall, and the first out trans writer to be hired in a television writers\u2019 room. She was awarded two Peabody Awards for her work on Transparent and Pose and has been nominated for three Writers Guild Awards and an NAACP Image Award.<\/p>\n

Our Lady J is represented by Writ Large.<\/p>\n

New Regency has upcoming the Adrian Lyne-directed drama \u201cDeep Water\u201d with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, \u201cEverybody\u2019s Talking About Jamie,\u201d a film adaptation of the West End musical that stars Richard E. Grant, Sharon Horgan, Sarah Lancashire and Max Harwood, an untitled drama from David O. Russell that stars Christian Bale, Michael B. Jordan and Margot Robbie and \u201cThe Northman,\u201d the Robert Eggers-directed drama that stars Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe. Dark Castle is in post on the Simon Barrett-directed \u201cSeance\u201d and \u201cThe Expecting,\u201d which Mary Harron directed for Quibi. Up next is \u201cEsther,\u201d the prequel to the Dark Castle genre hit \u201cOrphan.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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