End of Oak Street: A Series
Digital Photo Collage 2026
This August, Warner Bros. releases The End of Oak Street — directed by David Robert Mitchell, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as the Platt family, transported by a mysterious cosmic event to a prehistoric world where survival depends on sticking together. It looks terrifying. It looks thrilling. It looks like exactly the kind of film that should exist in every possible configuration of family.
So the Closet series has some casting suggestions:
The Alternative Casting collages recast the Platt family twice — once as a gay married male couple, once as a married lesbian couple, legal and permissible in the United States. The visual continuity of the original film doesn’t suffer. If anything, the heteronormative family structure that anchors most big-budget action cinema is looking a little tired. Both castings work. Both would make money. Both would win awards. Neither exists because Hollywood decided they wouldn’t before they tried.
The Gay Guys collage takes a different approach. Rather than recasting the family, it simply adds gay men to the neighborhood — present, unbothered, fully capable of handling a prehistoric situation. Hollywood has been running on queer coding for fifteen years while promoting itself to an audience that won’t set foot in the theater. Democrats go to movies at more than twice the rate of Republicans. The gay audience has been showing up and buying tickets for decades. Hollywood cashed the check yet never said the word.
We should just be there. On Oak Street. Battling the dinosaurs. Fierce in the fight and fabulous in the fashion.
That’ll sell some tickets.
— Behan
