AIda the Musical Movie — Page 5

Frozen made two billion at the gate. I think with time the world is going to see that animated features are not just the province of children. As this Aida was originally developed by Disney as an animated project (I believe there are even character design sheets out there from a very early phase of it; after The Lion King, they wanted another "serious" [read: Oscar-bait] project with Elton and Tim, so they bought the rights to Leontyne Price's original storybook version, but it was Elton's idea to develop it as a live musical instead after Beauty and the Beast kicked off), I see no reason why they couldn't make it (or a lot of other popular musicals for that matter, such as Wicked) animated and have a hit.

The key advantage to animation is that you could use whatever voices you want, even if they would be too old for the role now onstage or in a live-action film. (I personally would favor the celebrity casting they proposed for the live-action film that never got off the ground in 2007: Beyonce as Aida, and Christina Aguilera as Amneris.)

It's also worth noting that in an animated film, the imagery and the music is what carries it, so it wouldn't particularly matter how good or bad the libretto was, given that story-lines and dialogue for animated features tend to be far more simplistic, bordering on primitive.

Updated On: 2/3/16 at 09:35 AM

as a huge fan of this musical, happy to see there are many other fans who want this

I would also think an animated version would be commercially more successful

Like Wicked, they need to change the ending for a happy ending with Radames and Aida and get rid of the reincarnation theme at the beginning and end, then this would be a family friendly story where the priincess and hero live happier ever after in Nubia or some new land together, and write a happy ending for amneris too.

the music in this show was really really spectacular, and deserves immortality on film!!!!