Pageboy, due next year, will chronicle Page's "experiences as one of the most famous trans people in the world" and "the cesspool that Hollywood can be," says its publisher.
The love story between the women that unfolds via a time jump to 1963 and with an impending apocalypse subverts painful tropes for queer women of the era.
Tales of the City is queerer than ever and returns to Netflix in June with Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Charlie Barnett, Ellen Page, Jen Richards, and more.
Appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the out actress implored people to "connect the dots" between hateful rhetoric and violence against marginalized people.