‘Luca’ is finally in theaters & fans still don’t get why it isn’t canonically gay
Luca is finally getting a theatrical release, more than two years after it started streaming on Disney+. Pixar has been bringing its pandemic-era, streaming-only movies to multiplexes this year, with Soul lighting up screens in January and Turning Red following suit in February.
Now it’s Luca’s turn—the film started playing in theaters March 22—and social media users are still mourning the gay romance that could have been Pixar canon.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Set in a fictional Italian Riviera town, Luca is “is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta, and endless scooter rides,” Disney and Pixar say in a synopsis of the film. “Luca (Jacob Tremblay) shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer), but all the fun is at ri by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.”The Luca trailer gave viewers Call Me By Your Name vibes—The New York Times’ review of the film was even subtitled “Calamari by Your Name”—and it seemed for a while like we might finally have a queer love story in the foreground of a Disney film.#disney and #Pixar #Luca definitely looks like the story is a straight up metaphor for 2 gay boys in a world of #homophobia Disney did so good with the short #out on #DisneyPlus, I wonder if they have the stones to make a movie with gay leads..
