A sculpted body, an adoring audience and the run of Paris’s gay scene: Jim seems to have everything under control.
Then along comes a problem that cannot be solved with another gym session.
Jim Queen, the French animated comedy for adults, imagines a fictional virus called Heterosis that turns gay men straight. For its influencer hero, the result is a spectacular fall from social royalty.
Now that outrageous premise is getting an American theatrical outing.
A very gay trip to the movies
Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the film, with the English-language version planned for cinemas in summer 2027, as reported by Cartoon Brew. An exact opening date has not been announced.
Jordan Firstman voices Jim, while comedian Matteo Lane plays Lucien, the admirer who becomes his unlikely companion.
The supporting cast includes Nicole Byer, John Cameron Mitchell, Bob the Drag Queen and Wendie Malick.
That is quite a collection of people to hand a script this chaotic.
The guy who stays
Directed by Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané, the film premiered in the Midnight Screenings programme at Cannes in 2026.
The festival’s official synopsis describes Jim losing his status and followers, with Lucien remaining by his side. Their search for a cure takes them through the Marais, the Paris neighbourhood central to the film’s queer world.
As Adelaide Film Festival’s description makes clear, Lucien’s devotion initially goes unnoticed by the man he admires.
That gives the comic adventure a human question beneath the exaggerated muscles: who matters when being desirable stops opening every door?
Getting this much gay onto a screen
The filmmakers have described drawing on their experiences of gay nightlife and community.
Speaking to Reuters at Cannes, co-writer Simon Balteaux said it took eight years to secure sufficient backing. A recurring concern was that the project was too gay.
The new U.S. deal gives that very gay film another audience.
Its premise is deliberately absurd, its characters animated and its epidemic entirely fictional. The material it plays with — belonging, rejection, beauty and the value of someone staying beside you — is rather more recognisable.
Jim may have built his reputation on being everyone’s fantasy. Finding out who sees more than the fantasy sounds like the more interesting adventure.
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