Surprise, surprise — Warner Brothers has pushed back the release of “Alexander” because it tells it like it was: Alexander was widely known to have been gay (although the politically correct call him “bisexual.”). From MSNBC:
The opening date of the Oliver Stone epic about the Macedonian conqueror has been pushed back from Nov. 5 to Nov. 24, and an insider says one reason for the delay is that execs at the studio want to cut some of the film’s male-on-male love scenes.
“Alexander was almost certainly bisexual, and [director] Oliver Stone wanted to portray that,” says the source. “So there are scenes between Colin [Farrell, who plays Alexander] and women, but there’s also some passionate scenes between Colin and Francisco Bosch.”
Bosch plays Bagoas, a Persian eunuch, who many historians believe was Alexander’s lover.
“Some of the suits at Warner Bros. think that the movie-going public just isn’t ready to see that,” the insider reports. “There’s some pretty heated arguments going on over it.”
A spokeswoman for Warner Bros. tells The Scoop she knows nothing about any such controversy, and declined to look into it, explaining “we wouldn’t talk about anything involving the process of making a movie.”
What? Hollywood doesn’t talk about anything involving the process of making a movie? Huh? I can’t even come up with a comment that’s sarcastic enough to point out the unbelievable hypocrisy of that statement.
Anyway, it seems to me that they’re just setting up an incredible race to see the film from gay guys who lust after Colin Farrell. And we’ll all be buying the Director’s Cut DVD, as well…
