In the debut trailer for “The Wedding Banquet,” a contemporary reinterpretation of Ang Lee’s 1993 humorously chaotic LGBTQ+ film, Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone are seen collaborating on the arrangement of a fake wedding ceremony.
In Seattle, the film “The Wedding Banquet” revolves around Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and her partner Lee (Gladstone), who struggle financially while attempting to conceive a child through IVF. Simultaneously, their friend Min (Han Gi-chan), a wealthy businessman secretly in the closet, faces an impending expiration of his student visa. After his boyfriend Chris (Yang) refuses his marriage proposal, he proposes to Angela instead as part of a deal: a green card marriage in exchange for funding her IVF treatments. However, their plans for a discreet elopement are disrupted when Min’s grandmother (Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung from “Minari”) arrives from Korea and insists on organizing an elaborate wedding celebration instead. Predictably, numerous comedic events unfold as a result.
Yang’s character exclaims, ‘It’s time to make our home more inclusive!’ as his boyfriend returns from the airport with his grandma. ‘Goodness gracious, there’s just so much material about lesbian relationships here!’ In another scene within the trailer, Tran’s character Angela finds a seemingly out-of-place item of decoration in the bathroom. As she removes it from the wall, she sighs, ‘Everything in this house seems to be associated with homosexuality!’
Andrew Ahn, the filmmaker behind ‘Fire Island’, recently directed the remake of the original movie. This revised version had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday. James Schamus, who collaborated with Lee and Neil Peng to write the original script, also contributed to this new version alongside Ahn. Despite initially not feeling a need for a ‘Wedding Banquet’ remake, Ahn eventually saw merit in the concept.
Ahn stated before the film’s Sundance debut in 2019 that things have significantly evolved for the LGBTQ+ community since 1993. This evolution allowed us to tell a fresh narrative. We can now legally marry. But, is it something we should do? Is it something we desire? As a millennial, there’s a sense of pressure to choose. This choice shifts the focus from one generation to another, and it looks towards the future.
Watch the first teaser below:
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2025-01-28 21:46