How Fire Island Compares To Pride & Prejudice (Did It Get Everything?)
Hulu's movie Fire Island serves as a modern update on Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice with some appropriate changes for its LGBTQ+ context — here's how the movie shapes up in comparison to the classic romance. Fire Island is a New York vacation spot that has long served as a haven for the queer community and that's where Joel Kim Booster's Noah and Bowen Yang's Howie head with their friends for a week of fun. In addition to starring in the movie, Booster also wrote Fire Island after being inspired to create a queer version of Pride & Prejudice when he read the novel at the titular vacation spot.
Pride & Prejudice is considered a must-read by many literary scholars and has served as a template for many modern romance stories. The novel follows the Bennet sisters (primarily Jane and Elizabeth) as they search for proper suitors in early 19th-century Hertfordshire, a county in southern England. The novel has been adapted for the screen numerous times, including a 1940 film and a 1980 television version. Director Joe Wright's 2005 Pride & Prejudice adaptation is a particularly popular version of the novel, but Fire Island presents an interesting alternative.
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Ultimately, Fire Island isn't a typical romantic comedy or a straight adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Updating Austen's source material for a modern queer context (and shifting the location from England to the Fire Island) allows for some changes that freshen up the source material and present an LGBTQ+ story that bucks many of the trends around queer stories being told onscreen. Still, there are plenty of things that stick out about Fire Island and will remind well-read viewers of the classic novel. From
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