While Billy Porter is currently working on the making of his first film,

What If? 

for MGM, Amazon Studios has already commissioned him another feature film.

This is a comedy for teenagers, also in the LGBT + universe.

This film is tentatively titled

To Be Real

and is described as at the crossroads of

Superbad

and

Booksmart

, as the

Variety

notes

.

The original screenplay, written by Ryan Shiraki (

On My Block

), follows the journey of three queer friends who leave their hometowns to attend New York Pride.

The project will be produced, among others, by actress Gabrielle Union's company,

I'll Have Another

.

New Horizons

The past few months have been busy for Billy Porter, who first came to the other side of the camera with

What If?

.

This first production project is a drama based on a script by Alvaro Garcia Lecuona.

The plot follows the love story between a senior high school student in her final year and a transgender girl from her school.

If he becomes a filmmaker, Billy Porter does not give up his acting career and will be one of Cinderella's good fairies in the next adaptation for Amazon studios.

Meanwhile, the star may well win a second Emmy for her role as Pray Tell in

Ryan Murphy's

Pose

series

next month.

Billy Porter also revealed this year that he had been HIV positive for 14 years and had to keep his illness a secret so as not to hamper his career.

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