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RAINBOW ROY

By Charlie CREED-MILES

GREAT GUNS - as PROD

Family - Development 2024

Rainbow Roy is a heart warming coming of age dramedy of a boxer who ends up fighting for the World Heavyweight title.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Family, LGBT, Comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Charlie CREED-MILES
- Writer(s)
- Charlie CREED-MILES, Mark BURDIS
- Cast
- Ray WINSTONE, Alan CUMMING, Charlie CREED-MILES, Dexter FLETCHER
- Synopsis
- Rainbow Roy is the story of a boxer from London who ends up fighting for the World Heavyweight title.
  
  However, he has to keep one big secret from the boxing establishment: he’s gay.
  
  We first meet Roy as an overweight 10-year-old, on the floor after being punched in the face by the school bully.
  
  “There’s something not right about you, Roy” says the bully, “My dad says you’re a poof!”
  
  Roy clearly doesn’t know what a ‘poof’ is, and as he gets back to his feet, we realise that he’s much bigger that the boy who’s just hit him. Roy is a gentle giant, but his dad decides that his son needs to learn how to defend himself.
  
  He takes Roy down to a shabby old boxing gym in East London to be trained by a washed up, hard-drinking ex-pro called Max.
  
  Trained by Max, Roy has an unbeaten career as an amateur and soon turns professional. Although Roy is gay in his personal life and Max has no problem with that, he tells Roy in no uncertain terms to keep this a secret from the boxing world.
  
  He’s a contemporary hero. Brought up by loving, liberal parents, Roy was always encouraged to be true to himself. He’s emblematic of a generation who are happy to express their individuality and personal choices, without fear of shame or ridicule.
  
  Roy goes from a shy, bullied child, to the hardest kid in the school, to a professional boxer without ever losing his gentle charm, kindness and sense of self.
  
  He takes this honesty and self-acceptance into boxing and challenges one of the last bastions of macho heterosexuality. Roy eventually gets to fight for the World Heavyweight title in Las Vegas.
  
  In summary, Rainbow Roy is a humorous, dramatic, and poignant tale of a young man and his unique mix of gay self-expression and traditional working-class toughness.
  
  He is (quite literally) fighting for acceptance, for tolerance and for the biggest prize in boxing.