Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster book a trip in the trailer for Fire Island
The film reimagines Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice with a LGBTQ+ twist
In Hulu’s upcoming rom-com Fire Island, Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang and comedian Joel Kim Booster star as two best friends who set out for a summer adventure at the historic LGBTQ+ destination. With it, Booster fulfills his dream of creating the “gay Pride And Prejudice.”
In the trailer we see Noah (Booster) and Howie (Yang) head out to the Pines, a gay hotspot on Fire Island, for a week of day-drinking and debauchery—despite its now very white and elitist reputation.
“I can’t believe you talked me into this again,” says Yang’s Howie in the trailer. “I come here and I just feel terminally alone.” That is, until he meets a kind, hot doctor.
Noah and Howie end up mingling with a couple of the rich white gay men who regularly vacation on the island. Fire Island’s version of Mr. Darcy (played by Conrad Ricamora) comes in after the group is invited to a party at a sprawling beach house, where he judges them for their alcohol consumption. From there, it looks like both of them learn a little something about pride and prejudice.