You didn’t have to be a straight white guy. “It was also important to me, very early on, to make it clear that there weren’t ‘conditions’ that had to be fulfilled to have this immortality. You want to judge people by what they say and what they do.”īut Rucka said there was another reason, one that was much more about audience reaction. “If you live 500 years, if there’s one thing you’ve discovered, it’s that people are people, right? And that who they love and how they love isn’t the main nut of any relevance to how they’re going to treat the rest of the world. “It was done with deliberation, and it was done with care.”įor one thing, Rucka wanted to show that even if his characters had been raised with prejudices, their extended lives had sloughed all of that away. “It is straight up malice aforethought,” Rucka told Polygon with a laugh. How did Andromache the Scythian (Theron) and the rest of her Old Guard get quite so old, and quite so gay?
In fact, The Old Guard is kind of a perfect storm of Greg Rucka hallmarks: A hardboiled female lead who can kick the asses of ten men, highly skilled black-ops soldiers, and envelope-pushing queer representation. Having majority queer leads is a pretty unusual trait for a popcorn action movie, but not for the work of Greg Rucka, the veteran comics writer behind the original The Old Guard comic series, and the screenwriter of the Netflix adaptation.
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Netflix’s latest original movie is The Old Guard, a fun, suspenseful, and surprisingly emotional action vehicle featuring Charlize Theron as the leader of a squad of functionally immortal, mostly queer, stone cold badasses who’ve fought on every battlefield in history.Īnd when you’ve got functionally immortal queer people, that’s a big welcome sign to queer viewers who’re tired of the mainstream trend of queer characters who don’t live to see their happy ending.