Here's When Netflix's 'The Prom' Film Adaptation Will Release

But the billing was full of interesting choices.

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UPDATE (9/15/2020): Let the speculation go: we finally have a date.

A few weeks ago, we got a first glimpse of the cast of Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of The Prom for Netflix. At the time there was speculationi that the project was coming "on or around Christmas." Well now Murphy is clearing that up.

"On December 11, let Netflix take you to The Prom you didn't get this year," he tweeted this week. The tweet came alongside a billing of the already announced cast and boy were some choices made!

\u201cNICOLE KIDMAN HAS AN ACADEMY AWARD AND SHE\u2019S BILLED UNDER THE CELEBRITY UBER DRIVER?!? \n\n2020 IS CURSED\u201d
— Phillip (@Phillip) 1600121690

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\u201c@MrRPMurphy quick q why is James Corden billed ahead of Nicole Kidman? is this u coming out as straight?\u201d
— aoife (@aoife) 1600009811

\u201c@MrRPMurphy If Nicole Kidman and Kerry Washington were playing animated, conjoined earthworms with half a millisecond of screen time, their names would still be far too low on this pillar of balderdashery.\u201d
— Sam Smith (he/him) (@Sam Smith (he/him)) 1600122753

Thankfully, the more level-headed among us have answers.

\u201c@TediVision26 @MrRPMurphy It\u2019s in order of how the actors were billed in the original production - if their characters are leads, they get higher billing. Supporting go after, so you get this order (with the exception of Jo Ellen since she\u2019s being \u201cintroduced\u201d) \nNicole\u2019s role is much smaller than James\u2019s.\u201d
— Tedi (At Her Very Best) (@Tedi (At Her Very Best)) 1600012854

ORIGINAL (8/31/2020): Ryan Murphy is truly going full steam ahead. The mega-producer who is prepping for the release of his new series Ratched, as well as the onscreen version of the Broadway production Boys In The Band, is also now readying the release of yet another project: The Prom. The Hollywood powerbroker is turning the Broadway musical into a film and today released a first peek at the cast.

"Meet the incredible icon-packed cast of Netflix's The Prom," he wrote in an Instagram post. "A group of true troopers who buckled up and finished shooting during [the pandemic] so we could give everybody an inspirational aspirational story that we all need right now."