04-18-2014, 11:34 PM
New release coming soon.
Burning Blue, a romantic drama which tells the story of two Navy fighter pilots who fall in love while living under Dont Ask Dont Tell, will be released select U.S. theaters and on VOD on June 6. The movie, co-written and directed by DMW Greer and based on his hit play with the same title, has taken nearly two decades to make it to the big screen.
In 1987, a classmate and fellow Navy Pilot was killed in an accident while piloting a routine jet training flight over the California desert, Greer says in a statement about the film. While Id lost several friends in aviation accidents, Matts death was different. While it did not fully occur to me until he was gone, I realized Id been in love with him for many years. It was something understood and experienced together but never discussed.
He continues, It was a devastating loss, nearly overwhelming. Still as all military aviators are trained to do I worked to isolate and compartmentalize everything putting the experience aside and carrying on.
This relationship served as the inspiration for what would eventually become his play Burning Blue.
In 1995, the play opened at The Kings Head Theater in London before moving to the West End. It also enjoyed sold-out runs in South Africa and Isreal, before eventually coming to the U.S., where it was produced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Off-Broadway at The Samuel Beckett Theatre in September 2002.
http://www.queerty.com/first-look-film-o...-20140414/
Burning Blue, a romantic drama which tells the story of two Navy fighter pilots who fall in love while living under Dont Ask Dont Tell, will be released select U.S. theaters and on VOD on June 6. The movie, co-written and directed by DMW Greer and based on his hit play with the same title, has taken nearly two decades to make it to the big screen.
In 1987, a classmate and fellow Navy Pilot was killed in an accident while piloting a routine jet training flight over the California desert, Greer says in a statement about the film. While Id lost several friends in aviation accidents, Matts death was different. While it did not fully occur to me until he was gone, I realized Id been in love with him for many years. It was something understood and experienced together but never discussed.
He continues, It was a devastating loss, nearly overwhelming. Still as all military aviators are trained to do I worked to isolate and compartmentalize everything putting the experience aside and carrying on.
This relationship served as the inspiration for what would eventually become his play Burning Blue.
In 1995, the play opened at The Kings Head Theater in London before moving to the West End. It also enjoyed sold-out runs in South Africa and Isreal, before eventually coming to the U.S., where it was produced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Off-Broadway at The Samuel Beckett Theatre in September 2002.
http://www.queerty.com/first-look-film-o...-20140414/