Roland Emmerich's next movie is about the explosion of the gay rights movement
After decades of advocating for serious change in our society by destroying most of it, director Roland Emmerich’s next film will take on the subject of gay rights—or as Pat Robertson would call it, “another disaster movie.” Emmerich has cast War Horse star Jeremy Irvine in Stonewall, a dramatic retelling of the 1969 raid on the Greenwich Village bar where gays and transgenders gathered, and the subsequent riots that became, as Deadline puts it, “the flashpoint for the gay rights movement.” No doubt irresistibly attracted by the word “flashpoint,” Emmerich will tackle Stonewall before his sequels to Independence Day (the flashpoint for the punching-aliens-in-the-face-movement).