Coming Soon: "The Aids Film No One Wanted To Make"

Premiering next month at the Toronto Film Festival is the true story and certain Oscar nominee, The Dallas Buyers Club, a movie that took twenty years to make because, "It's about a racist homophobe with aids who befriends a man who dresses as a woman. Then they both die." The cowboy-hatted homophobe (played by a super-gaunt Matthew McConaughey, down to 130 pounds) is Ron Woodroof, a hetero Texan electrician and rodeo buff who contracted aids in 1986. With his typical screw-the-bastards attitude, when faced with FDA footdragging, he started smuggling unapproved but life-prolonging drugs in from Mexico. Word got around, and he began helping the gays he hated. Hello, Hollywood.

My question -- will the subtext be that while The Gays helplessly pranced around in high heels it took a Real Man to step up and do something useful, in the time honored tradition of aparthied movies centering on heroic whites and Holocaust movies about noble Catholics -- goes unasked and unanswered in today's big, buzzy L.A. Times profile. But the backstory is rich. First, this was a Woody Harrelson movie directed by Dennis Hopper, then a Brad Pitt movie directed by Marc Forester (which is how they eventually came to make WWZ), then years of nothing, then it was back as a Ryan Gosling movie directed by Craig Gillespie, but the money wasn't there. Enter Matthew McConaughey who in this telling is the movie's saviour. He insisted it get made and started losing weight for the role before they had financing. Auditioning via Skype, in drag, Jared Leto scored the major gay part. The Canadian director wanted Noomi Rapace for the scientist role but the studio said take Jennifer Garner instead. Also on board: Steve Zahn and Griffin Dunne.

While some industry types mocked the long-stalled project as "that feel-good aids movie," the L.A. Times reports "people who've seen 'Dallas Buyers' say it has an arty feel, bypassing many of the Hollywood conventions of uplift while bearing other marks of an auteur piece. It is shot with no added lighting and no score." It opens December 6.

Jean-March Vallée also directed the popular gay coming-of-age movie C.R.A.Z.Y. and the predictably enjoyable historical romance The Young Victoria with Rupert Friend, a campy shrewish perf from the almost-forgotten Miranda Richardson, and a queendom of Oscar-winning costumes.

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