{"id":37189,"date":"2022-05-13T18:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T22:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=37189"},"modified":"2022-05-13T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T22:52:44","slug":"peacock-sets-august-5-premiere-for-original-film-they-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/13\/peacock-sets-august-5-premiere-for-original-film-they-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacock Sets August 5 Premiere for Original Film &#8220;They\/Them&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37190\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/blumhouse-productions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/blumhouse-productions.jpg 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/blumhouse-productions-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peacock announced today its new original film <strong><em>THEY\/THEM<\/em><\/strong>, pronounced &#8220;<em>They-slash-Them<\/em>,&#8221; from Blumhouse will premiere Friday, August 5. The LGBTQIA+ horror film, formerly known as &#8216;<em>Whistler Camp<\/em>,&#8217; is a queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Bacon plays Owen Whistler in this slasher horror film set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp. Several queer and trans campers join Whistler for a week of programming intended to &#8220;help them find a new sense of freedom&#8221;. As the camp&#8217;s methods become increasingly more psychologically unsettling, the campers must work together to protect themselves. When a mysterious killer starts claiming victims, things get even more dangerous.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2300743567\" class=\"morty-content morty-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<em>THEY\/THEM<\/em> has been germinating within me my whole life. I&#8217;ve loved horror movies as long as I can remember, I think because monsters represent &#8216;the other&#8217; and as gay kid I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those characters who were different, outlawed, or forbidden,&#8221; said writer and director, John Logan. &#8220;I wanted to make a movie that celebrates queerness, with characters that I never saw when I was growing up. When people walk away from the movie, I hope they&#8217;re going to remember the incredible love that these kids have for each other and how that love needs to be protected and celebrated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Original films will be an integral component of Peacock&#8217;s content offering, and we are thrilled to partner with Blumhouse on <em>THEY\/THEM<\/em> streaming exclusively this summer,&#8221; said Val Boreland, Executive Vice President, Content Acquisition, NBCUniversal Entertainment, Television, and Streaming. &#8220;The film is not only entertaining and thrilling, but also empowers its audience with its message of acceptance in a way that only a creator like John Logan could imagine and then bring to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>THEY\/THEM<\/em> is produced by Blumhouse. The film is created, written, and directed by three-time Oscar\u00ae-nominated screenwriter John Logan (<em>Skyfall, Gladiator, The Aviator<\/em>), marking his directorial debut and serving as an executive producer on the film. Kevin Bacon (<em>You Should Have Left, City On a Hill<\/em>), Scott Turner Schofield (<em>Euphoria; The Craft: Legacy<\/em>), Howie Young (<em>Mission: Impossible III, Hit and Run<\/em>), and Jon Romano (<em>Firestarter<\/em> (2022), <em>Vengeance<\/em>) also serve as executive producers. Jason Blum (Get Out, The Invisible Man) and Michael Aguilar (<em>Penny Dreadful, Kidding<\/em>) are producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 CAST &amp; CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:<\/p><div id=\"morty-2612961626\" class=\"morty-content_2 morty-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Bacon (he\/him) plays Owen Whistler, the conversion camp director who runs Whistler Camp alongside several counselors including his wife, Cora.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Chlumsky (she\/her) plays Molly, the camp&#8217;s medic and newest employee.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Preston (she\/her) plays Cora Whistler, a licensed therapist in charge of the campers&#8217; therapy sessions, and the wife of camp director Owen Whistler.<\/p>\n<p>Theo Germaine (they\/them) plays Jordan, a transgender and non-binary camper from a religious background who has made a deal with their parents to legally emancipate if attending Whistler doesn&#8217;t &#8220;work.&#8221; Quei Tann (she\/her) plays Alexandra, a transgender woman whose parents have threatened to kick her out of the house if she didn&#8217;t attend the camp.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Crute (he\/him) plays Toby, a gay camper who negotiated with his parents for a trip to New York in exchange for a week at Whistler Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Monique Kim (she\/her) plays Veronica, a bisexual camper who wants to stop fighting who she really is.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Lore (she\/her) plays Kim, a closeted lesbian camper who puts on a perfectly crafted front for her family and friends, assuming that when she fits in, she&#8217;ll finally be loved.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Koch (he\/him) plays Stu, a jock with aspirations of a swim scholarship and joining his father&#8217;s fraternity &#8211; things he doesn&#8217;t feel he can achieve if he&#8217;s open about being gay.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin del Fabro (he\/him) plays Gabriel, a sensitive gay camper tired of the persistent name-calling and bullying he&#8217;s endured his entire life.<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/Director\/ Executive Producer: John Logan (<em>Skyfall, Gladiator, The Aviator<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Executive Producers: Kevin Bacon (<em>You Should Have Left, City On a Hill<\/em>), Scott Turner Schofield (<em>Euphoria; The Craft: Legacy<\/em>), Howie Young (<em>Mission: Impossible III, Hit and Run<\/em>), Jon Romano (Firestarter (2022), <em>Vengeance<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Produced By: Jason Blum (<em>Get Out, The Invisible Man<\/em>), Michael Aguilar (<em>Penny Dreadful, Kidding<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Launch Date: Friday, August 5, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peacock announced today its new original film THEY\/THEM, pronounced &#8220;They-slash-Them,&#8221; from Blumhouse will premiere Friday, August 5. 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