I really don’t know why SO many people are terrified about Live Action LiS straight-washing the story and removing the queer theming? It really does feel like catastrophizing to me and just looking for things to get mad about.
No, the LiS show team aren’t going to make Max or Chloe straight. Max and Chloe are big parts of queer video game culture and are known to be wlw icons. They would risk losing most of their audience if they retcon Pricefield or if they endgamed one of them with a guy. They know full well their audience is mostly queer women and they don’t want to alienate that audience, because that means less money for them.
Charlie Covell, the showrunner and exec, is nonbinary. They wrote for a tv series for E4 in 2015 called Banana, which was about queer youth. They wrote a film in 2015 called Burn Burn Burn, which had queer themes and a lesbian main character. They are not going to remove the queer theming from LiS.
Tatum and Maisy are both queer. Tatum uses she/they pronouns, and Maisy is dating Bella Ramsey. Live action Chloe Price dating Live action Ellie Williams is so perfect to me. That’s the epitome of wlw gaming right there. Pricefield is going to be played by two queer people and that’s something to be excited about!!
Again, there’s no way they’re going to remove the queer theming of Max and Chloe when they’re being played by two queer people who are being written and directed by a queer showrunner.
Not just Tatum and Maisy: Esther, who plays Rachel, is bi. Emily, who plays Victoria, is nonbinary and has publicly dated girls. Leisha Hailey, who plays Joyce, was in the L Word and used to date k. d. lang!!! This show is GAY AS FUCK! They are not going to have such a uniquely wlw and nblw cast and crew working on this adaptation of an iconic lesbian story just to straight-wash it.
Actually look forward to something for once, damn. I get that some people have low expectations after being disappointed by DE and Reunion, but have a lil faith in something for once! Stop making up things to be worried about— nobody is gonna make LiS into a straight story.
