“I want people - especially gay men, especially queer people - to walk away from the movie happy that they’re gay,” Booster told Vanity Fair. When the platform folded, Searchlight acquired the idea and expanded it into a film. After shelving the idea for years, Booster initially developed it as a short form series for the now defunct streaming mobile platform Quibi. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Booster revealed that the genesis behind a “Pride and Prejudice” story set on the shores of Fire Island stemmed from a trip he took to the Pines with Yang where he brought Austen’s novel with him.
