DEAR EVAN HANSEN Movie Musical - News & Discussion Thread- Page 3

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 2:02pm

I don't think Evan was ever supposed to be likeable. 

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 5:06pm

Jesus. This board is bitching about a DEH movie but all excited about a Prom movie? The Prom no matter how you slice and dice it has an inferior book and score to DEH. 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 5:22pm

Tons of people bitched about The Prom film.....

[BwayLB]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 5:34pm

poisonivy2 said: "Jesus. This board is bitching about a DEH movie but all excited about a Prom movie? The Prom no matter how you slice and dice it has an inferior book and score to DEH."

I thought the Prom was a good movie

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 5:44pm

I thought Murphy's The Prom was likable, but all of the onstage version's flaws were much more evident on screen. Here's hoping Hansen can avoid such pitfalls- Chbosky seems like the right guy to steer this ship.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 6:37pm

poisonivy2 said: "Jesus. This board is bitching about a DEH movie but all excited about a Prom movie? The Prom no matter how you slice and dice it has an inferior book and score to DEH."

Are you new here?  This board bitches about everything. 

[NOWaWarning]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 10:10pm

Do we know if they’re cutting any songs? I know they’re adding at least one, for the Alana character. There are a few I wouldn’t miss.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 2/1/21 at 10:28pm

castlestreet said: "Wow!

Every musical adaptation that spends forever in development hell...DEH just said “this is how it’s done!”"

To be fair, DEH as a musical is a lot easier to develop - it's modern music, set in modern times, not really any choreography, a school and some houses as locations, no large ensemble, it's more a drama than anything else, everyone involved is still alive and the book writer is adapting his own screenplay after already making a novel out his book, so the legwork is done in many respects.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 4/5/21 at 10:50pm

I had heard from someone who's involved with the film, I don't know if it was Ben Platt or Stephen Chbosky, that the number "You Will Be Found" is going to be a "large scale thrill on the screen". Of course taking an intimate small musical like this and translating it to screen to be bigger and bolder is a choice that can work either really well or fall flat on it's face.

I am going to watch this but I will say that out of all four of 2021's movie musicals coming out, this is the one I'm not sure about due to me not being a fan of the show (I don't hate it) and on how well it's going to translate on screen. But it still has bigger advantages in comparison to Cats so that helps a little.

[Alexander Lamar]

Posted: 4/5/21 at 11:16pm

I know WSS and...Heights is coming; what's the fourth movie musical?

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 4/5/21 at 11:19pm

Everybody’s talking about Jamie

[BwayLB]

Posted: 4/5/21 at 11:29pm

Musical Master said: "I had heard from someone who's involved with the film, I don't know if it was Ben Platt or StephenChbosky, that the number "You Will Be Found" is going to be a "large scale thrill on the screen". Of course taking an intimatesmall musical like this and translating it to screen to be bigger and bolder is a choice that can work eitherreally well or fallflat on it's face.

I am going to watch this but I will say that out of all four of 2021's movie musicals coming out, this is the one I'm not sure about due to me not being a fan of the show (I don't hate it) and on how well it's going to translate on screen. But it still has bigger advantages in comparison to Cats so that helps a little."

I'm scared for it to fall flat

[Musical Master]

Posted: 4/5/21 at 11:36pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Everybody’s talking about Jamie"

Actually that one has been pushed to a TBA date, the fourth movie musical coming out is Lin Manuel Miranda's film adaptation of Tick..Tick..Boom! that will be released this year on Netflix.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 4/6/21 at 8:37am

Yes, but it is tbd 2021. Still a pending release.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 4/6/21 at 2:50pm

Is it still for 2021? I mean it's still listed for 2021 on IMDB but I haven't seen that from everywhere else. If it does get a new later date for 2021 then we will have 5 movie musicals from Hollywood; all adapted from stage musicals.

[jpbran]

Posted: 4/6/21 at 4:54pm

There’s also the Joe Wright directed adaptation of off-Broadway’s musical “Cyrano” with Peter Dinklage reprising his role... BUT this might be bumped into early ‘22. 

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 4/7/21 at 12:11am

I think Jamie is technically just TBD as opposed to TBD 2021, but unless they decide releasing it in Q3-4 of this year would lead to oversaturation with all the other musicals coming out I would be sort of surprised if it came out any later than 2021, considering it's basically 100% done and was on the cusp of releasing a month or so ago. I don't know enough about the film industry to say for sure, anything can happen I suppose. Superficial guess.

Updated On: 4/7/21 at 12:11 AM

[Musical Master]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 2:43pm

West Side Story has released it's teaser trailer, while Dear Evan Hansen has yet to release any official photos or a teaser trailer for this movie. Should I take it as a sign or something?

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 2:49pm

Musical Master said: "West Side Story has released it's teaser trailer, while Dear Evan Hansen has yet to release any official photos or a teaser trailer for thismovie. Should I take it as a sign or something?"

Well, The Prom didn’t release their teaser until less than 2 months before its Netflix premiere date, so you never know. 

[Musical Master]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 2:51pm

The thing is though, Netflix has always done that sort of marketing for a long time. This is meant to be a theatrically released film by Universal, so honestly I have no infernal clue why they're being so secretive about it.

Strategy perhaps?

[NameGreg]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 3:00pm

Maybe it’s gonna get pushed back. Which honestly wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen. In the Heights and West Side Story are already hotly anticipated musical adaptations, and there’s several other major releases, maybe it would be best to just push the release back a bit so it won’t have to compete and can spend more then building up buzz.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 3:08pm

My guess is there will be a trailer when In The Heights comes out in June or maybe even Cruella which comes out at the end of this month. 

[Musical Master]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 3:09pm

June would be ideal, but I guess we'll wait and see what happens.

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 3:11pm

Sutton Ross said: "Tons of people bitched about The Prom film....."

The only problems i was hearing with The Prom film were with James Corden. Were there other issues? OH and perhaps not casting as many Broadway cast members as they could have/should have?

[Wick3]

Posted: 5/6/21 at 3:32pm

The film will be released on Sept 24th, 2021 right? I wonder when the musical will go back on Broadway. Same day too?