Lee Daniels developing gay “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” type film to star Alex Pettyfer as half of interractial gay couple

A gay filmmaker with clout making a mainstream action film with gay characters as the leads?

It could happen.

Coming off the box office and critical success of his most recent film The Butler, Lee Daniels is now developing a movie that would star Alex Pettyfer as one half of a gay interracial couple.

I like it already!

‘Alex Pettyfer is in it, [but] I have to find the right black guy opposite him,’ Daniels tells Out Magazine. ‘He’s so hot, isn’t he? So hot. And so aware of his hotness in a way that’s so…I love him to death.’

Daniels, who also directed Precious and The Paperboy, describes the film as ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith but the two good-looking guys as the action heroes. We don’t find out they’re gay until the end of the movie.’

Mr. & Mrs. Smith, of course, was the 2004 film that starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married assassins hired to kill each other. Off-screen, they fell in in love for real and the tabloids are still writing about it and poor Jennifer Aniston.

Anyway, will Hollywood be willing to back what Daniels says is an ‘interracial love affair action movie’?

After all, the major movie studios passed on Behind the Candelabra after deeming it was ‘too gay’ despite stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon being attached and Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh directing.

But Daniels is undaunted.

“I don’t think I’m going to have a problem now. I made a $100 million for The Butler. I’m in a rare group. So this is something I feel good about.”