{"id":3356,"date":"2026-07-09T18:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:06:36","slug":"scissor-sisters-singer-jake-shears-to-produce-tinderbox-about-deadly-1973-lgbtq-attack-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3356","title":{"rendered":"Scissor Sisters Singer Jake Shears to Produce \u2018Tinderbox\u2019 About Deadly 1973 LGBTQ Attack (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nJake Shears is helping a once lost piece of LGBTQ history reach a wider audience, with the Scissor Sisters singer boarding <em>Tinderbox<\/em> as a producer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3354\">Karlovy Vary: Juliette Binoche Revisits Her Oscar Upset \u2014 and Teases Her Next Move<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe film tells the story of the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire, which was the worst mass murder of LGBTQ people in America until the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016. Author Robert Fieseler brought attention to the tragedy in his 2018 book, <em>Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn addition to producing, Shears will lend music from his albums <em>Jake Shears<\/em> and <em>B-Sides<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe project has had Hollywood interest for years and is now getting off the ground under filmmakers Colby Holt and Sam Probst, who will write and direct. The duo previously helmed the indie horror movie <em>Ganymede<\/em>, about a wrestler who develops a crush on his openly gay classmate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHolt and Probst happened to be listening to Shears\u2019 albums <em>Jake Shears<\/em> and <em>B-Sides<\/em> as they were reading <em>Tinderbox<\/em>. \u201cThe more we listened, the more we started to think that Jake\u2019s songs and lyrics related to different characters and scenes in Robert\u2019s book,\u201d the duo said in a statement. \u201cJake and Robert are both New Orleanians, and we feel since these two works were created in this same city, during the same time period, they must have just been in the air together and somehow we picked up on the tune.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3352\">Julianne Nicholson to Reprise \u2018Mare of Easttown\u2019 Role in \u2018Task\u2019 Season 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tCory Thompson, known for the 2024 thriller <em>Barron\u2019s Cove<\/em>, is producing through his Rewind Artists.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201c<em>Tinderbox<\/em>\u00a0is exactly the kind of project we\u2019re passionate about developing at Rewind Artists\u2014stories that are both artistically ambitious and culturally significant,\u201d said Thompson. \u201cRobert\u2019s book is extraordinary, and from the moment Colby and Sam shared their vision for the adaptation, I knew this was a film we wanted to help bring to life. Jake\u2019s involvement only strengthens an already incredible creative team, and we\u2019re excited to continue building the project together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHolt and Probst are repped by Rewind Artists. Shears, who recently acted in <em>Pillion<\/em>,  is repped by WME and Fascination Management. Fieseler is repped by UTA.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3350\">Liam Neeson, Zachary Levi\u2019s Iran-Set Action Movie \u2018Hotel Tehran\u2019 Gets Release Date and New Title (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musician&#039;s albums &#039;Jake Shears&#039; and &#039;B-Sides&#039; will be incorporated into the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,2446,371,147],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-books","tag-jake-shears","tag-lgbtq","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scissor Sisters Singer Jake Shears to Produce \u2018Tinderbox\u2019 About Deadly 1973 LGBTQ Attack (Exclusive) - 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