EVITA remake?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 3:57pm

I think it needs to be remade. Personally, I feel the Madonna film version was a major disappointment. Alan Parker was the wrong director for the task, in my opinion. I'm not sure about Scarlett Johansson as Eva, though.

"Washington, Dec 22: Scarlett Johansson is desperate to play the role of Eva Peron in the proposed remake of 1996 musical ‘Evita’ that stars pop icon Madonna in the lead."

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=343712&ssid=1&sid=ENT

[justagirl2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 4:15pm

Updated On: 3/9/17 at 04:15 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 4:22pm

justagirl2: What's your beef with Scarlett?

[justagirl2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 4:30pm

Updated On: 3/9/17 at 04:30 PM

[Muhlethaler]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 4:41pm

Updated On: 7/20/18 at 04:41 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 4:43pm

She's too young, to WASP-y, and a movie would cost WAY too much to make. The only reason it was greenlit before was MADONNA. Period. And her star-power worked some miracles on allowing Parker and his crew to film key locations that had been barred previously.

I could see Webber doing a straight-to-video film of his stage production, or even a TV movie adaptation of the musical down the road... but that would be in 10 to 15 years or so.

Not now... and not her.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:05pm

best12bars: It had been greenlit twice before, with Meryl Streep in 1989 and Michelle Pfeiffer in 1994.

Anyway, I hope another major motion picture is made of this musical. (A crappy TV version would suck!) I think they should keep the major songs, get rid of the recitative, and add more dialog/scenes/characters. A sung-through movie just doesn't cut it.

I've been waiting/hoping for a straight-to-video/DVD release of Harold Prince's original staging, but I want them to stay truer to the stage production. I don't like what they did with JOSEPH, CATS, and SUPERSTAR. At all.

Updated On: 12/22/06 at 05:05 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:07pm

hmmmmmmmmmm interesting....

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:08pm

I think the Evita film is beautiful.

And it wouldn't be what it was if Madonna wasn't tied to the project.
SHe showed a human side of the chaacter...and not a yelling/screaming sung version like Patti Lupone did on stage.
And let's face it...Madonna's life and Eva's life is pretty darn similar.
It was the perfect role for her.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:13pm

"best12bars: It had been greenlit twice before, with Meryl Streep in 1989 and Michelle Pfeiffer in 1994."

No, that wasn't "greenlighting." It was in the development stages, with a proposed star attached, and fell it through in the early stages of development.

It never made it into production, pre-production, or even as far as casting, either time.

EDIT: And you can add Liza Minelli who was also attached to the film at one point, with trippy Ken Russell directing.

Updated On: 12/22/06 at 05:13 PM

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:15pm

While I loved the movie, I'd also love to see a film more faithful to the Eva of the original production. I want to see a bitchy, scheming la Peron. The fact that the cut my favorite verse from "And The Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" proves how much the perception of Eva was changed for the movie.

If the money keeps rolling in what's a girl to do?
Cream a little off the top for expenses--wouldn't you?
But where on Earth can people hide their little piece of Heaven?
Thank God for Switzerland
Where a girl and a guy with a little petty cash between them
Can be sure when they deposit no-one's seen them
Oh what bliss to sign your checks as three-o-one-two-seven
Never been accounts in the name of Eva Peron!

I knew nothing about the musical or the Peron regime when I first saw the movie and I thought Evita was some kind of national saint. It lost most of its satire to please the Argentine people enough so that they could use choice filming locations.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:29pm

I stand corrected, b12b.

Kitzarina: Have you heard the original London lyrics to that verse? I'm glad they tweaked it when it came to Broadway.

If the money keeps rolling in what's a girl to do?
Cream a little off the top for expenses -- wouldn't you?
Unless there are a bitter few who envy such success
Both thank God for Switzerland
Where a guy and a girl with a little petty cash between them
Can be sure when they deposit no one's seen them
Oh what bliss to sign your checks as 30127
Never been accounts in the name of Eva Peron!

What do the third and fourth lines even mean?

BTW: For my own amusement, I have rewritten the prolog with added dialog and such, so I know it CAN be done.

Updated On: 12/22/06 at 05:29 PM

[Luscious]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 7:23pm

Oh Puh-leeze. Remake a 10 year old movie musical? How ridiculously unnecessary. Never gonna happen.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 10:14pm

except for a few things here and there, I absolutely love this movie. And I know I am in the severe minority here, but I strongly prefer the movie soundtrack to the OBCR.