Adam Shankman To Direct/Choreograph The Rock Of Ages Movie — Page 2

you are assuming the film score will be "toned down."

Well, they pretty much all are. Listening to the film soundtrack CD is always more thrilling than what you actually hear in the theatre. The voices are shoved up front and everything else takes a back seat. I heard it in Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, etc. And I expect no less from Rock of Ages, but I think in the case of this show, it will be a larger detriment than the previous musicals simply because the show itself rests so much on the conceptualization of the live rock concert atmosphere and experience. I don't think it's a ridiculous assumption in the least. In fact, I think it' more ridiculous to assume otherwise. But I would love to be proven otherwise.

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I'm going to bet this bombs.

I usually think jukebox musicals work much better as films than stage shows anyways, so I'm not really opposed to the idea. Just like I had a blast seeing Meryl Streep tackle the ABBA songbook (and I would have hated the film had it been cast with a stage actress), I'm looking forward to movie stars singing these songs, I have no interest in seeing stage actors cast in this. Wasn't Patrick Wilson rumored for this? He'd be great.

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How quickly we forget:

not only did Shankman's HAIRSPRAY film make money, it also got mostly excellent reviews:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hairspray/

Top Critics on Tomatometer- 97%!!!

Also, let's not forget that the show was written with several "insert celebrity here" roles in it. Lonny and Dennis are obviously intended to parallel Jack Black and Kyle Gass, respectively, with Gass having actually played Dennis in Los Angeles.

Justice could not be more Queen Latifah-esque if her name had been "Latifah, the Queen."

And tell me Will Arnett wouldn't be perfect as the Mayor.

Please, no to Queen Latifah. It says a lot about Hollywood when every black female character in a musical is played by Queen Latifah.

^I want both, actually.

Love the idea of Kristen Bell in this.

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I believe the plan was to make a film of ROA from the start of mounting the show on stage.

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New Line is not a producer of the show and the purchase of the film rights came AFTER they had their Broadway theater secured. New Line didn't even invest money in the stage show. The only thing they did for the stage show of ROA is produce the OCR. You got bad info, darquegk.

darquegk,
you just make all that info up? I mean I don't know how snarky knows all of that but you just backed down right away without a fight which means that you know what you wrote is completely false.
So you just came onto the message board and made up all that info. Like you sat down and just started writing crap that has no validity and posed it as truth, and factual. Now you are going to say someone told you that and you believed them, aren't you

That is unbelievable to me. How old are you? Honestly that's incredible to me that you wanted people to think you actually knew something about the goings on of ROAges. And you didn't even write "i think...". You wrote it as if you knew all of this from the CEO of New Line.

I am always amazed by people and their ineptitude.

As a fan of ROA, my concern is Shankman's statement of casting the film with movie stars.

One of the things that ruined Hairspray for me was the very miscast John Travolta. Uma Thurman was dreadful in The Producers.

If you are gonna cast Hollywood, then cast it right, and at least use appropriate actors.

The key is making the movie fun. If it can't keep the camp fun over the top element that the current show has then just forget it.

I do think the movie could be fun with this cast, with a tongue in cheek nod to American Idol:

Drew: Constantine Maroulis (He's good, keep him)
Sherrie: Scarlett Johannson
Lonny: Brad Pitt
Dennis: Kevin Bacon
Stacee Jaxx: Adam Lambert
Justice: Jennifer Hudson
Hertz: Will Ferrell
Franz: Neil Patrick Harris
Regina: Amy Sedaris
Mayor: Dennis Hopper

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