Watch This: A First Look at “Love, Simon”
(Photo Credits: Screengrab from 20th Century Fox YouTube)
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first teaser trailer for Love, Simon (2018, Greg Berlanti) and it is awesome!
In Love, Simon, we see a protagonist who holds a closely-guarded secret. He keeps this secret from everyone, everyone, even from his family and close friends making him feel out of place sometimes. Like some stranger who is always on the outside, looking in not to mention that oftentimes, he feels weird.
He is Simon Spier (played by Nick Robinson), a 17-year-old gay high school student who found a refuge from his email pen pal Blue.
Love, Simon is a coming of age dramedy based on Becky Albertalli’s book titled Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015). It stars Colton Haynes, Keiynan Lonsdale (who came out as bisexual last May of this year), and Jennifer Garner to name a few. The aforementioned film is directed by the talented Greg Berlanti, an openly gay American film and television writer and producer who regularly writes and produces some of my favorite shows like Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Riverdale.
Going by the reaction over at Twitter, fans are pretty stoked over Love, Simon.
I love this book so much it’s in my top 5 favorites. It helped me a lot during a weird time in my life and I’m so glad it’s getting the recognition it deserves. I’m so excited to see what they do with the movie! #LOVESIMON https://t.co/Sbu5u0hd3f
— St. Nicolas 🎅🎄 (@NicoCristallo) November 28, 2017
looking at the #LoveSimon trailer like 😍 #TRL pic.twitter.com/aSCHscnU3Q
— TRL (@TRL) November 28, 2017
“Why is straight the default?” Happy @lovesimonmovie trailer day!💌 #LOVESIMON @beckyalbertalli pic.twitter.com/X8WfEKzR1w
— love, m 💌 (@mavilezt) November 29, 2017
IF PPL LET #LOVESIMON FLOP IM GOING TO FIGHT EVERYONE IT’S SO IMPORTANT GO WATCH IT EVEN IF YOU HAVENT READ THE BOOK
— love, rosie (@andrewmemeyard) November 28, 2017
I myself am looking forward to watching this film; I love the cast, the director himself, and the storyline of course. Admittedly, I have yet to read the book it is based on but it’s got glowing reviews over at Goodreads. With that, we leave you with the movie’s trailer. Enjoy!
Love, Simon is due for release this March 16, 2018.
Thoughts? Share it with us in the comments section below.
You have to feelbbad for simon.
He has imprisoned himself in a place where there’s a line he has to cross.
He’s stuck in a place from which he has to come out of.
He needs to understand he’s no different than anyone else; he needs to be who he is.
He needs to stop believing that being gay is a limitation.
He needs to stop being a victim.
He needs to just be a great guy, a great family member, a great friend, a great student, a great co-worker, a great neighbor, a great whatever he allows himself to be.
Like everyone else, there will be those few who don’t see him as that.
Like everyone else there will be those few who don’t like him, who don’t see him as wonderful.
Like everyone else, he needs to work past those few and prove them wrong.
He needs to find those people who don’t care that he’s gay … and really see him for so much more than that.
another movie about perfectly beautiful people living in a perfectly beautiful place.
Lol, I just love these kinds of movies, shows you in way, what a long way we’ve come to see healthy/normalized portrayals of ourselves, as oppose to the many movies of past, the way they portrayed gay people as monsters. This seems like another refreshing view of us!