According to Deadline, Roland Emmerich, the director of such ‘splosion-fests as Independence Day, 10,000 BC, and 2012, has signed on to direct Stonewall, which is described thusly:

…the film is about the June 28, 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a mafia-owned bar that was a gathering place for gays and transgenders. It became the flashpoint for the gay rights movement, a galvanizing event that is considered a touchstone even today in the fight for equal rights for the gay and transgender population.

Stonewall is a film written by Jon Robin Saitz (a veteran of Brothers & Sisters) and will star Jeremy Irvine (War Horse). It’s clearly a passion project for the openly gay Emmerich, who’s more at home with explosive buildings than explosive emotions.

No word on how this will affect the Independence Day sequel that no one really wants.

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