‘Rub & Tug’ movie about trans gangster
reenvisioned as series with transgender
actor, not Scarlett Johansson
New York Daily News,
by
Kate Feldman
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/22/2020 4:01:48 PM
The controversial “Rub & Tug” movie, about transgender gangster Dante “Tex” Gill, which drew headlines when Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead, is now being developed as a television series with trans people in front of and behind the camera. Our Lady J, an Emmy-nominated writer on “Pose,” will helm the project, production company New Regency announced Tuesday, along with a commitment to casting a trans actor to play Gill, a 1970s crime boss who led an empire of illegal massage parlors.(Snip) The project, first presented as a movie, faced backlash from LGBTQ activists and the general public after Johansson was announced
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TexaTucky 7/22/2020 4:09:14 PM (No. 487313)
Did you know Bela Lugosi was not actually a vampire?
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Big fail
Bigger abortion of a movie title
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
marbles 7/22/2020 4:21:58 PM (No. 487325)
It's called " acting " for a reason. It's all fake. Kirk Douglas was not really a slave from Thrace. Vivien Leigh was English. Rock Hudson played straight guys. In " Hamilton " , black people play the white founding fathers . That's O.K. with dems/libs.........why ? What if a white person were to play MLK ........uproar ? You betcha.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 7/22/2020 4:42:05 PM (No. 487338)
I can’t wait to not watch it.
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Already nominated for an Academy Award... I'm sure of it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/22/2020 5:15:53 PM (No. 487369)
Rub & tug is trans bump & grind?
You’ve put me off my dinner.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/22/2020 5:19:06 PM (No. 487376)
Even the title of the movie is smarmy. A good indication of the quality of the movie and its subject.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/22/2020 5:24:37 PM (No. 487380)
At least with Johansson, the character would of course 'look' like a woman. Recast with a trannie, the character will look more true to form
- a butt ugly wannabe.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/22/2020 5:35:37 PM (No. 487390)
Plug & Scrub, how can this not be important?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 7/22/2020 5:36:19 PM (No. 487392)
I'll be sure to not watch.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
msjena 7/22/2020 5:39:53 PM (No. 487396)
That trans actor (actress) will really bring in the audience, right?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/22/2020 5:55:26 PM (No. 487409)
There are people who will watch this sick crap[??
Hard to imagine.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/22/2020 6:23:29 PM (No. 487434)
Rarely but now and then a headline comes up here that makes absolutely NO SENSE and I skipped this one.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/22/2020 6:31:15 PM (No. 487447)
Look at it this way. Massage parlors - the legitimate kind - are OK in most places. Now, think of the other kind. Or then again, don’t. But that is what this so-called “series” is to be about…
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NYbob 7/22/2020 6:57:21 PM (No. 487484)
Lots of people think they can be a 'star.' The rest are sure they could be a great director.
Johansson has been down this road before. Not Asian enough for the live version of Ghost In The Shell.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/22/2020 7:01:06 PM (No. 487489)
Way to stick it up in our faces and rub our noses in it. You will pay. Oh you WILL pay. We won't even have to lift a finger (though the urge is strong!).
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/22/2020 8:20:20 PM (No. 487551)
Pa health commissioner, Dr. Rachel Levine, could be in the movie, but no one would want a massage from 'her.'
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
psych53 7/22/2020 9:07:06 PM (No. 487599)
Tex was short, fat, and ridiculously ugly, way back when, here in Pittsburgh. She was a gangster with absolutely no redeeming value. Why anyone would want to make any kind of movie about that execrable piece of protoplasm is beyond me!
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So it’s must “T” “TV”.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 7/22/2020 10:06:01 PM (No. 487625)
Just something else not to watch..'they' are injecting this queer crap into everything...any time I watch any movie, if it goes 'queer' I just turn it off...no matter how much I may like it up to that point...sad that 12% of the population can drive us to this point in society.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
joew9 7/22/2020 10:39:56 PM (No. 487640)
I would rather not see Johansson play a trans gender.
It would be like my distaste in seeing Audrey Hepburn playing a hooker in that Breakfast movie.
I've always hated that movie because of that casting.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/23/2020 4:05:13 AM (No. 487732)
More drive-by propaganda tv media trash. What's next? A series on the joys of pedophiles?
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The potential audience for this as a movie would be vanishingly small, so they put it on Woke Cable and fund it through fees people pay to watch sports and whatnot. Odd business model.