{"id":35123,"date":"2014-07-16T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=35123"},"modified":"2014-07-16T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:10:17","slug":"quinto-takes-role-in-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/07\/quinto-takes-role-in-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinto Takes Role In Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35129\" alt=\"QuintoSpockStockPhoto020314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/QuintoSpockStockPhoto0203141.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zachary<strong> Quinto<\/strong> has signed on for a role in <em>Michael<\/em>, the story of an &#8220;ex-gay activist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael<\/em> portrays the life of <em>Michael Glatze<\/em>, who renounced his homosexuality later in life and married a woman.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The lead role will be played by <strong>James Franco<\/strong>, with Quinto playing his ex-boyfriend. <strong>Emma Roberts<\/strong> plays Michael&#8217;s love interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a story about an &#8216;ex-gay,&#8217; said Director <strong>Justin Kelly<\/strong>. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually a very relatable story about the power of belief and the desire to belong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited that everyone involved in this project is intent on telling a story that captures the full breadth of Michael&#8217;s unusual life, from the inspiring gay leader I knew when I was young to the Christian pastor he is today,&#8221; said <strong>Benoit Denizet-Lewis<\/strong>, who wrote &#8220;<em>My Ex-Gay Friend,<\/em>&#8221; an article about Glatze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Quinto has signed on for a role in Michael, the story of an &#8220;ex-gay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[7496,2475],"class_list":["post-35123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-michael","tag-quinto"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"10","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35132,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123\/revisions\/35132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}