Actor Billy Porter is already on board to make his directorial debut with one film – coming of age tale What If?. He's also now involved with another, as Amazon Studios has won the rights to a new movie, queer comedy To Be Real, which Gabrielle Union's company is producing.
The script comes from Ryan Shiraki, a writer and director who most recently has been busy helming episodes of TV series such as On My Block and Katy Keene. According to Variety, the story is in the vein of Superbad and Booksmart following, according to the logline, "three queer friends who escape their hometown for Pride Weekend in New York City where they discover that life over the rainbow is an insane, raunchy, often divisive, but ultimately FIERCE non-stop party."
What If?, is already shooting, so the new film will have to wait until Porter's schedule clears.