The film was meant to be a- nay, the gay 'Pride and Prejudice' we expected that rain-soaked, articulate, ardent 19th century love story made modern and gay. He scoffs, the non-committal Kiera Knightly of it all. The story begins very on the nose with Noah (Joel Kim Booster) quoting the first line of Austen's novel, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife'.
Starring Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang, ' Fire Island' promised to be the LGBTQ+ answer to Jane Austen's 1813 novel.