not quite as busy as certain gossip bloggers made it seem), Lukas Gage has lined up a new leading film role—and it sounds like a wild one!Deadline announced today that the out heartthrob will star opposite Josh Duhamel in “darkly comedic crime thriller” Full Throttle Mindset from director Patrick Brice (Creep) based on the strange-but-true story of real-life businessman and con-man Todd Beckman.Sure, they had us at “Lukas Gage,” but there are a few reasons the entire sentence above should have you even more excited. Let’s get into it, shall we?Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.EXCLUSIVE: Josh Duhamel and Lukas Gage have signed on to star in ‘Full Throttle Mindset,’ a darkly comedic crime thriller from director Patrick Brice and XYZ Films https://t.co/wNX7hvyR3SFirst of all, the story.
Per Deadline, Gage will play “young burnout” Blake Laubinger who finds an unlikely mentor in Duhamel’s Todd Beckman, a “Midwestern tanning salon mogul.” But, as Blake gets closer to the business, he realizes it’s all a front for a drug empire—and now Todd’s made him his newest recruit.The script from screenwriter Jake Disch is based on a piece in the St. Louis Riverfront Times from Doyle Murphy titled “The Long, Violent Fall of Tanning Mogul Todd Beckman.” The founder of tanning salon chain TanCo, Beckman was something of a local legend in the Midwest, a cult of personality an ever-expanding lifestyle empire that included gyms, massage parlors, health supplements shops, oh and a massive drug trafficking operations.Of course, there was plenty of darkness lurking beneath that spray-tanned surface.
Murphy’s reporting details the bloody and brutal series of events that led to Beckman’s shady dealings coming to light—and it’s well worth a read! You won’t be able to look away. But it should be noted, the piece only briefly mentions how Blake Laubinger was a “young drug dealer who started as an investor in
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