Two, perhaps either Casey and Miller’s deal to work on Ace Ventura 3, and/or the arrangement with Amazon, haven’t been finalized, so mentioning them at all was jumping the gun. First, Ace Ventura 3 heading to Amazon and tapping Sonic the Hedgehog writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller to pen the screenplay was information that wasn’t supposed to be revealed to the public yet. Now before going further, it’s important to note that the last sentence in the above statement has since been removed from Park Circus piece, which could indicate one of two things. Ace Ventura will see a new day at Amazon as a major motion picture/theatrical with the Sonic the Hedgehog writers.
We’re pretty excited about our franchise developments with 'Exorcist' and the Ace Ventura franchise - its noticeable from the 3 million fans chatting on the official Facebook page for Ace Ventura that audiences are clamouring for a third installment… During COVID, audiences have been in love and are thrilled to have beloved characters brought back with new stories. But the internet was not a thing in 1994, at least not as we know it now (it would have made it way easier for Ace to solve the case), and people just didn’t have the same platform as we do now to call out problematic stuff.Morgan Creek Entertainment, the production company behind the Ace Ventura movies, recently spoke with Park Circus for a spotlight piece, and while upcoming projects were discussed, it was noted that Ace Ventura 3 now has writers attached and is headed to streaming: There were protests at the time, as we can see from this archived 1994 piece from the LA Times with letters decrying the film’s homophobia. The conflation of gay men with drag queens and men who lived as women or transwomen was all over the map, and we can see it here in the fact that Ace, like a lot of movies, is both homophobic and transphobic because it doesn’t know the difference.Īnd while the problematic elements of Ace Ventura are enough to give us major pause now, that film, and others, still became major hits, even with the offensiveness. There are so many examples of characters who evidence this “trend” in the 90s-from Buffalo Bill in the Silence of the Lambs, to Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, to whatever was going on with Chandler’s father, Charles, a character who was written as a gay man played by a cis woman (Kathleen Turner) on Friends.
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