Elliot Web page lately used their look on the 2024 Juno Awards to name out “devastating” assaults on LGBTQ+ freedom. (Cindy Ord/Getty)
Elliot Web page is planning to adapt acclaimed LGBTQ+ younger grownup sci-fi novel The Darkness Exterior Us right into a film, after buying the rights to the 2021 e-book.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the information that Pageboy Productions, Elliot Web page’s manufacturing firm, had optioned Eliot Schrefer’s love story, which is about two boys who’re despatched on an area mission collectively.
The younger males are from enemy international locations, however have to determine work collectively after they’re despatched on a rescue mission. It’s a standard enemies-to-lovers romance in some ways, however with thriller components too.
Matt Jordan Smith and Tuck Dowrey are additionally working with Pageboy Productions to convey the e-book to life. One evaluate describes it as “heart-wrenching, but hopeful. Darkish, however not solely with out gentle. Thought-provoking in methods that may in all probability offer you an existential disaster.”
“We’re proud to face behind Eliot’s exceptional work. The Darkness Exterior Us is strictly the kind of story we need to champion at PAGEBOY – it’s subversive and deeply human at its core,” stated Web page, Jordan Smith and Dowrey in a joint assertion. “It’s a posh love story, ingenious thriller, and an area epic with twists at each flip. We can not wait to take the subsequent steps in the direction of getting it on the large display screen.”
Creator Eliot Schrefer additionally issued a press release concerning the partnership with Elliot Web page, saying: “What would I hope for many for my novel? An agile, younger, motivated manufacturing firm that’s buzzy in Hollywood—and that’s simply what I received with PAGEBOY Productions. I’m so excited by their imaginative and prescient for The Darkness Exterior Us and honored to have the abilities of Elliot and Matt and Tuck and the remainder of the staff dedicated to it.”
In September 2023, Elliot Web page returned to the large display screen for the primary time since 2017, starring in Near You, additionally made by Pageboy Productions. In it, the actor performs trans man Sam, who visits his hometown for the primary time since transitioning and is reunited with a childhood pal.
The Oscar-nominated actor beforehand took a step again from the cinematic limelight as he launched into his gender transition journey, publicly popping out as a trans man in 2020.