Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (May 2, 2008)

JULY — IT'S ABBA VS BATMAN
I have to confess, when I heard ABBA's music was being turned into a Broadway musical, I was w-a-a-y skeptical it would go anywhere. So given how wrong I was about that, there is no way I am going to bet against Meryl Streep's movie version of the hit Broadway show. Even better, the always adorable Colin Firth is playing gay in the flick as one of the men who might possibly be Sophie's (Amanda Seyfried) father.

Sam Carmichael, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried

The uber-cheery Mamma Mia opens the same day as Heath Ledger's final movie, The Dark Knight. No doubt a lot of gay men will turn out to see the Brokeback Mountain star's final performance as The Joker.

For those looking for something entirely different, there is a remake of Brideshead Revisited based on the book by Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead is the tale of Charles and Sebastian, two young men — one upper crust, one not — who meet at Oxford and become life long friends, including some sexual encounters between the two. Those old enough to recall, might remember that in the original version Jeremy Irons played Charles while Anthony Andrews played Sebastian.

In the remake, Matthew Goode plays Charles and Ben Whishaw is Sebastian.

Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Irons, Andrew Andrews

It's been twenty-seven years since the original, and I'll be very interested in seeing how the gay aspects are handled this time around. Brideshead Revisited opens July 25th. Mamma Mia and The Dark Knight both open July 18th.

Finally, if you're looking for something foreign and don't think remakes of English novels already turned into movies count, then cast your eyes eastward for Korea's No Regret about two men who fall in love despite their class differences. Wait, that sounds a little bit like Brideshead, no?

Lee Han, Lee Young-hoon

No Regret's release date for July has yet to be announced.