Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's 'Behind the Candelabra'.
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, who is also preparing Side Effects, He has not gotten any Hollywood distributor to want to release his film 'Behind the Candelabra'. Apparently the reason is that everyone calls her 'too gay'.
'Behind the Candelabra' is a biopic that tells the life of the eccentric pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace, very popular in the 50s and 60s for his appearances on American television (where he played the villain Chandell in the series 'Batman'), and who died in 1987 from AIDS.
'Behind the Candelabra', Michael Douglas embodies Liberace and Matt Damon to her lover Scott Thornson It will finally premiere in the spring on the HBO television network as no agreement has been reached with any film distributor: “Nobody wanted to do it. We asked all the studios and they all rejected the project. And this happened, by the way, after the success of 'Brokeback Mountain', which is a much less entertaining movie than this. I was stunned, it didn't make sense ”, explained Soderbergh, who does not understand that a project like this has run out of screens.
With everything, the director is very satisfied with his agreement with HBO: “They are great, they do their job very well. And I also think that this way the film will reach a lot more people ”.
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