John Gielgud Wrote Gay-Porn Script
And if the actors are hot there will be consummations devoutly to be wished. Shakespearean acting great John Gielgud (1904-2000) wrote a porn script. The Guardian: He is known as one of the greatest-ever interpreters of Shakespeare, was awarded an Oscar for his rude butler in “Arthur” and made a knight, but Gielgud could gain fresh fame for something rather more counter-cultural: a gay porn film he wrote for Peter de Rome and which may finally go into production. “Peter de Rome knew everybody when he was working, including John Gielgud, and John was so impressed with Peter’s work – which of course was porn – that he wrote Peter a screenplay,†said De Rome expert David McGillivray. “Nobody knows anything about this script, it’s not in the John Gielgud letters, it’s not mentioned in the biographies, it’s an unknown script. John Gielgud’s only screenplay. So next year, we are going to make that. “It’s called ‘Trouser Bar.’ John Gielgud was obsessed with trousers, loved corduroy and leather. And so he wrote a film set in a menswear shop.†(Couldn’t they call it “Are You Being Served?’) Kristen Bjorn, the Peter de Rome of the 21st century according to McGillivray, is to direct it. Bjorn’s film credits stretch back to 1989 and include “Manly Beach,” “Bone Island,” and two instalments of “Rocks & Hard Places.”
