BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Teaser Trailer

HBO has released a first teaser trailer for Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming Behind the Candelabra.

Starring Michael Douglas as the famously flamboyant musician – Liberace, with Matt Damon as his lover Scott Thorson, the film is based on the latter’s autobiography about their secret five-year relationship that began in 1977.

Soderbergh is directing from a script penned by Richard LaGravenese (Water for Elephants), based on Thorson’s autobiography, Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace.

“Behind the Candelabra” also stars Dan Aykroyd, Rob Lowe, Debbie Reynolds, Scott Bakula and Paul Reiser and will premiere on HBO on Sunday night, May 26th, 2013.