Cold Nights For Pretty Boys

Back in August I told you about All of Us Strangers and Looking director Andrew Haigh's next movie -- excuse me, next GAY movie (thank goodness) -- an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's book A Long Winter (which comes out in a couple of weeks) about a woman who goes druunkenly wandering into a snowstorm, forcing her husband and son to start a long search for her. That plot description is slightly different from the one of the book -- especially the names and settings which have seem to've been Americanized from the Pyrenees of Tóibín's novel. Anyway there's no word on who's playing who yet but we have some cast members now -- Heartstopper hunk Kit Connor with his Warfare castmate D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, and then our boy Fred Hechinger! (Yay Fred!) How those three pretty young things fit into that plot description I have no idea, but we'll leave our trust in Andrew Haigh, who has yet to make anything that wasn't incredible in his entire career and yet who keeps being ignored by awards bodies because he keeps making gay stuff. (What, me get over All of Us Strangers being snubbed? Are you nuts?) 

Good Morning, World

Let's start today off with a little Kit Connor since Alex Garland's war film Warfare has dropped onto VOD today. (You can also pre-order the 4K and blu-ray right here.) And no this gif isn't from Warfare, which unfortunately doesn't feature a group shower scene before the ridiculous cast oif hotties (also including Joseph Quinn, Noah Centineo, Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Cosmo Jarvis, Henrique Zaga, and on and on and on) heads out to battle -- although we do get Joseph Quinn insinuating group masturbation for a moment, and yes I have written out that whole deleted scene mentally-speaking several times over. No that gif is from Heartstopper, the show that introduced Kit to the world and turned him into a thing. (A thing!) And yes that's the gay show, the beloved gay show that I haven't watched yet. Leave me be, I'm busy dammit. (Busy mentally writing war-time circle-jerks apparently.) Anyway here is my review of Warfare over at Pajiba -- a mixed one but I still think the movie's worth seeing, even if I have some issues. (Issue number one -- no circle jerk...)

Man to Man, Body Muscular

I haven't thought of the Ashton Kutcher led prank series Punk'd in a very long time but I read this morning's news that there is a zombie movie starring Kit Connor, Will Poulter, and Manu Rios(!!!) being shopped at Cannes and I felt the need to peer around all the surrounding corners lest a hidden camera be watching me. I mean -- this is casting via MNPP's side-bar! WTF. The movie (if it's real and not a joke specifically on me) is called Rapture and it's set in Medieval England and it will be written and directed by the Canadian author and playwright Jordan Tannahill (first time movie director though) -- and with that cast you shouldn't need to ask but yes, Tannahill is gay. 

Anyway Rapture is set in the year 1348 and our beautiful boys will be playing monks who hear word of a mysterious plague ravaging the land that's turning people into "revenants" aka the undead aka the living dead aka zombies, yo. The film is set to start production in Hungary later this year -- Poulter & Connor of course just worked together (and dug around in each other's trousers) in Warfare. Spanish special-effect Manu Rios, well, he was the surprise ace card that told me how gay this project really was looking.

Will Poulter Four Times

I guess today is all about the On Swift Horses boys! And why shouldn't it be? This morning we gave Jacob Elordi's bulge a spin and later on (ooh a preview of coming... attractions!) we'll have some Diego Calva to share. But right this minute let us toss ourselves onto Will Poulter's lap and give it a shake and a shimmy. Will was photographed for Interview Magazine, where he's interviewed by his Warfare co-star Kit Connor -- unfortunately the two of them don't discuss Kit grabbing Will's ass for all of us to enjoy; neither do they mention the shot of Will's incredible ass that's in On Swift Horses and which is one of the movie's greatest highlights. (Burned onto my brain, it is.) But then I don't mention Will's ass in my forthcoming Pajiba review of the movie either because hey -- we're professionals here! Except for here here, as in on MNPP, where I'll let my ass-ogling freak-flag fly freely. Thank goodness for safe (ass) spaces y'all. Hit the jump for the rest o' Will...

 

Who Wore It Best?

I'm kind of annoyed that the Instagram account Portiswasp beat me to this punch because it'd popped into my head last week when I saw actor Brandon Sklenar (above right) wearing this stylist-fave mesh shirt for Interview Magazine and realized I'd seen it everywhere lately and had since then been meaning to do this exact poll. Alas I was too slow and you can see the entire collection of menfolk who've rocked the shirt at their link. Me I'll focus in on four of the fellas, all of whom (save Skelnar until now) had already been featured  here at MNPP in this nip-barer of a fashion choice. (Glen Powell here, George MacKay here, and Kit Connor here.)

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That said those four aside the correct answer is 

probably actor Ishaan Khatter, because goddamn.

Warfare Boys Gone Wild

As you well know -- as you no doubt have scratched into your flesh with a shard of glass! -- I wasn't here on Friday. And so I wasn't able to post a link (from here anyway) to my review of Warfare, Alex Garland's new war movie starring a cast of a thousand hotties that included Charles Melton, Cosmo Jarvis, Will Poulter, Kit Connor, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Joseph Quinn, Henrique Zaga, and our boy Noah Centineo seen above in yet another photo from his truly endless Behind the Blinds photoshoot. (See more here, and that post includes a link to three previous posts from the same shoot.) I also wasn't able to share...

... that video of Kit Connor and Charles Melton digging around in the backside of Will Poulter's trousers from the cast's ridiculously baity press run (which I did previously touch upon here) and that won't stand either. But I should definitely now link to my review, which you can read right here. Did any of you go see the movie this weekend? If so let me know in the comments if you agree or don't with what I had to say. If you don't agree it's okay! It's okay to be wrong! That said there are more Noah photos to share so let's get to that (PS if I had one wish -- sorry, orphans of the world! -- it would be to have Noah's perfect mop of hair) and hit the jump for those...

Kit Connor Sixteen Times

Our impatience has been rewarded! Yesterday when I posted the new photoshoot of Kit Connor's Warfare co-star Will Poulter I bitched and moaned about my impatience waiting for Kit's turn... and here it is! He's been photographed for Flaunt magazine and they did a bang-up sexy-ass job -- and this finally earns Kit a tag here on the site. Good boy! But you don't wanna listen to me ramble so I will now shut up and we can all just hit the jump for all the pretty boy snaps...

Will Poulter Eleven Times

As has been mentioned a couple of times this week already the next nine days or so will no doubt belong to the boys of Warfare photoshoot-wise, and today it seems to be Will Poulter's turn as Man About Town magazine has just dropped these pictures via their Instagram. Will looks hot (arms!), we love us some Will as you well know, but I gotta be honest and admit...

All the gays setting their alarms to go off for when Flaunt mag drops this photoshoot of Kit Connor proper

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM

... I'm getting kinda frustrated impatiently waiting for Flaunt magazine to drop their new and extremely sexy looking Kit Connor photoshoot, which lo-fi snaps of have leaked onto social media. Look at that shit! I keep checking basically every hour, for naught -- anyway stay tuned. Warfare is out until next Friday so one of these days we'll get it! For now enjoy Will after the jump...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... doing "press" with the Warfare cast.

As I said yesterday when I posted more of Noah Centineo's most recent photoshoot the press push for Alex Garland's upcoming war film with a cast of ten thousand hotties has lots of possibility, and I ain't just dreaming -- this is real, this is really happening! 

The guys seem to've been feeling especially frisky while talking to EW for this cover-shoot. At this rate, with nine days to still go until the movie's release, they'll be frotting by Monday. Huzzah!

The week of sexy #Warfare cast photos continues

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM

Boys in Uniform

We've been keeping our eye on Alex Garland's upcoming war movie Warfare because its cast is a who's-who of do-me -- Noah Centineo and Kit Connor (seen above) plus Joseph Quinn, Henrique Zaga, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Charles Melton, Finn Bennett, and several more young actors of note. But also Alex Garland's an interesting director and we look forward to his movies even when they don't star the line-up for our filthiest dreams. Anyway the film's out in about five weeks, landing on April 11th, and we've just landed our first look at it via the below video. Watch:

The film was co-directed and co-written by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza, who's telling the story of his own experiences, so expect a real immersive verite thing -- if you can call something as gorgeous looking as the footage contained in that clip "verite" anyway. The film was shot again by Garland's Civil War DP David J. Thompson, who made combat exquisite in that film --  looks like he'll be continuing that streak. In summation after the jump are four pictures of Noah Centineo at one of the Oscars after parties this past weekend because his hair looks so so pretty y'all (what, I get distracted easily)...

Kit Connor Ten Times

Twice this week we've displayed proof that I am a bad, terrible gay, truly the worst -- on Wednesday I posted a photo of Taylor Zakhar Perez and admitted for the tenth time I still haven't watched Red White and Royal Blue. And now here today I'm posting a photoshoot of Heartstopper star Kit Connor while admitting that no, I haven't watched a single second of Heartstopper either. I am an Official Gay -- I'm a member of the guild and everything! -- and yet this is how I behave? Simply excoriable. String me up from the rafters, folks. I have it coming. Anyway Kit is 20 years old now so I can officially feel slightly less creepy for posting his photos -- this photoshoot for Hero magazine (via) has given me permission to ogle! I feel freed and, dare I say, very gay. So hit the jump to feel gay some yourself...

Do Dump or Marry: Boys Being Boys

This photo of actors Kit Connor, Charles Melton and Noah Centineo appeared over the weekend (click to embiggen) and it seems to me like a nice opportunity for us to play a quick round of "Do Dump or Marry" with it! So let us do that now. 

Tell me in the comments which actor you'd spend a single torrid night with (Do), toss in the trash like so much trash (Dump), or wed in official matrimony forever and ever (Marry). 

 

Noah Is Going To War

I posted about Ex Machina (and this weekend's Civil War) director Alex Garland's next movie Warfare back in February when Charles Melton was cast in it, but since then there has been an onslaught of pretty young things cast in the movie and today's news that Noah Centineo is one of them finally tipped me into must-post-again territory. (As did stumbling upon these photos of Noah from 2019 which I don't believe I've ever seen much less posted before.) I didn't have a heap of info on the movie before but when Reservation Dogs actor D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai was cast this load of information was dropped:

"Woon-A-Tai will portray Ray Mendoza, sources close to production tell Deadline. Mendoza joined the Navy in 1997 and served for over 16 years as a Member of Seal Team 5 and a Land Warfare Training Detachment and BUD/s instructor. He was awarded a Silver Star “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as Lead Communicator, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Ramadi, in direct support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on November 19, 2006,” according to Military Times.   

Warfare is the second collaboration for Garland and Mendoza, who served as the military supervisor for Garland’s latest film Civil War set for release on April 12. The pair wrote and will co-direct the film. Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich of DNA and Peter Rice will produce. A24 will handle the global release of the film."

But back to the most important issue of this movie's hot cast -- besides Melton, Centineo, and Woon-A-Tai, the cast already has Cosmo Jarvis (our boy from Lady Macbeth and the currently airing Shogun series), Joseph Quinn (from Stranger Things and the future Johnny Storm), Kit Connor (the hottie from Heartbreaker), Will Poulter (he of the blown up MCU muscles), and Finn Bennett, last seen cleaning up blood in his tighty-whities on the most recent season of True Detective. 

Now that's a cast! And I've no doubt more will be cast -- so it goes with these military movies. War is good for one thing and that thing is hot casts of war movies. We'll obviously be keeping our eye on this one -- and stay tuned for our thoughts on Civil War, dropping soon-ish. Now hit the jump for two more of these vintage (is five years old "vintage"?) Noah snaps...