"Eureka"'s Colin Ferguson and "Firefly"'s Sean Maher Set to Play Gay in "Timing"

Two of the hottest hunks in sci-fi would make an adorable (onscreen) couple.

What happens when Connor (Firefly's Sean Maher) has his marriage proposal to Jesse (Eureka's Colin Ferguson) interrupted by Jesse's heretofore-unknown seventeen-year-old son? That's the question Timing, a new film from Dalliance Films, will attempt to answer.

Keith Sweeney, a producer for Dalliance Films, a Charlotte, N.C. indie film company, spoke with AfterElton.com confirming that Timing is currently in development with pre-production scheduled to start in late winter/early spring. The budget is slated at approximately three million dollars.

Both Ferguson and Maher have signed letters of intent for the project, but offers won't officially be extended until later in the process with hopes that both actors' schedules will allow their participation to take place as planned.

It's not the first time either actor will have starred in roles of gay interest. Ferguson appeared in More Tales of the City as well as the gay-themed The Opposite of Sex. In addition to his starring role on Eureka, Ferguson also had a lead role in the disastrously unfunny, but sexually subversive American version of Coupling.

Classic leading man looks with a touch of goofball.

Besides being almost impossibly handsome as Dr. Simon Tam on Firefly, Sean Maher played the loving-but-repressed partner of John Stamos in the 2006 TV movie Wedding Wars on A&E. The actor has also proven capable of playing parts much more fun than his rather somber Firefly character in guest spots on Drop Dead Diva and Ghost Whisperer.

Sexy and mischievious makes good boyfriend material.

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