Fabulous, darling! Priscilla to ride again in film sequel

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It’s clip to frock up and get backmost connected the road: a caller Priscilla movie is successful the works.

Stephan Elliott – writer and manager of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – has confirmed in an interview with amusement website Deadline that a sequel to the beloved Australian deed had been written, 30 years aft the archetypal was released.

A sequel has been written for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

“The archetypal formed is connected board, I’ve got a publication that everybody likes, we’re inactive moving retired deals... It’s happening,” Elliott said.

“I’m not repeating myself, we’ll commencement the caller movie successful Australia, but by God, we’re going connected 1 helluva journey.”

The manager said the caller movie would bring backmost resistance queens Bernadette (Terence Stamp), Felicia (Guy Pearce) and Mitzi (Hugo Weaving). In the original, the trio question from Sydney to Alice Springs successful their autobus named Priscilla, encountering quirky characters successful the Australian outback.

Elliott said Stamp, present aged 85, was peculiarly keen to “get it happening, get it shooting this year”.

Priscilla – which screened successful the Un Certain Regard conception of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival – won captious and fashionable acclaim for its portrayal of LGBTQ characters. The sparkly and sequin-filled movie besides won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

Since its release, the movie has been adapted into a musical, with an immersive mentation of the signifier amusement called Priscilla the Party! opening successful London earlier this year.

While Priscilla and the 1990 acclaimed documentary Paris Is Burning were immoderate of the archetypal mainstream depictions of resistance culture, the creation signifier has been formed further into the spotlight since its release, peculiarly by tv shows specified arsenic RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Elliott told Deadline that the caller movie would “move with the times”, showcasing disco hits alongside modern popular numbers.

Hugo Weaving arsenic Mitzi successful the 1994 film.

In a 2023 interview, Weaving told Good Weekend helium probably wouldn’t beryllium formed arsenic Mitzi if they made Priscilla successful the existent governmental climate.

“A fig of cheery actors were offered 1 of the roles and they were precise reluctant to instrumentality it due to the fact that they didn’t privation to retired themselves,” helium said. “I’m not a cheery antheral and I don’t person immoderate issues playing gay. But I deliberation a batch of radical bash now.”