Dear Evan Hansen movie?- Page 3

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 8/19/20 at 8:32pm

Love Nik in Atypical! So excited for this cast!

I actually think Idina would be a great Heidi.

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/19/20 at 10:09pm

Idina is the obvious choice... I wonder if Alanis Morissette herself, who seems to be the vocal model for the role, would want to do it, and is she a good enough actor?

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 8/19/20 at 10:18pm

Idina would be amazing, I hope they cast her. 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 8/20/20 at 12:25pm

I feel like the film is just going to show us how similar sounding the music is and how bland.

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 8/20/20 at 7:00pm

Dodani is the first casting choice I'm really excited about. He's really great on the show Atypical, and I remember when watching that how much he reminded me of Will Roland.

Updated On: 8/20/20 at 07:00 PM

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 8/20/20 at 11:27pm

I agree that the movie might make the story feel like a Lifetime Movie.

If all this movie does is get Pasek and Paul the Hollywood clout to make a Dogfight movie, I'll be satisfied.

[Tag]

Posted: 8/20/20 at 11:37pm

Anyone ever seen the Sandra Bullock movie The Net?  It centers on the early days of the internet.  It hasn't aged well.  Which is exactly what this movie will be in 20 years (re: social networks).

Also Idina works in a 2000 seat theatre when she's playing to the last row.  Not up close, on screen.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 12:18am

Idina was pretty damn good in Uncut Gems so not sure that’s case

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 12:45am

Oh I never even thought of Idina for Heidi, but she would be incredible.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 12:53am

Yep, that bitchy insult made no sense, she is incredible anywhere. 

Updated On: 8/21/20 at 12:53 AM

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 12:59am

Kate Walsh or Toni Collette for Cynthia?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 2:34am

darquegk said: "Idina is the obvious choice... I wonder if Alanis Morissette herself, who seems to be the vocal model for the role, would want to do it, and is she a good enough actor?"

Granted I never watched either show, so I don't know if she was good or not, but she did appear in multiple episodes of both Nip/Tuck and Weeds (I'd include Dogma, but she was silent in that movie)

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 11:43am

It will never happen considering the route they’re going for with the races of the characters, but I’d love to see Heather Headley as Cynthia. Brian D’Arcy James is probably a given for Larry.
If they’re expanding Alanas role, I wonder if we might see more of a backstory to her and might see her parents make it into the film.

[hork]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 12:07pm

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "This totally will end up being like a Love Simon or Fault in Our Stars kinda movie.

I think you're totally right about that. Especially with Stephen Chbosky directing. He's a good writer but not much of a director. But as you also said, the stage show already has that YA feel. I already kind of equate it with Love Simon in my mind. The movie is certainly not going to be artistically ambitious or risky (or interesting).

[sparksatmidnight]

Posted: 8/21/20 at 11:16pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Idina was pretty damn good in Uncut Gems so not sure that’s case"

Wait, Idina is in Uncut Gems? Shucks I'll have to waatch it now

[gypsy101]

Posted: 8/22/20 at 2:50am

darquegk said: "Idina is the obvious choice... I wonder if Alanis Morissette herself, who seems to be the vocal model for the role, would want to do it, and is she a good enough actor?"

i really enjoyed Alanis on Weeds, i think she could be good in the role

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 8/22/20 at 2:00pm

Idina is making more and more sense to me - I just remembered that Marc Platt produced IF/THEN.

[BwayLB]

Posted: 8/22/20 at 9:44pm

^And Wicked

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 8/22/20 at 11:12pm

BwayLB said: "^And Wicked"

Haha yes but I figured that was more common knowledge.

[BwayLB]

Posted: 8/22/20 at 11:39pm

Oh

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/23/20 at 12:11am

hork said: "Especially with Stephen Chbosky directing. He's a good writer but not much of a director.“


I can’t even put into words how much I disagree with this statement, esp seeing how he so beautifully handled “Perks of Being a Wallflower”.

[Ravenclaw]

Posted: 8/23/20 at 6:21am

I'm in complete agreement with Jordan--Chobsky's work on Perks of Being a Wallflower is near-perfect, and that film overlaps so much with Dear Evan Hansen in terms of tone, style, theme, and content that he's such an obvious fit for the material. Of course, anything can go wrong while making a movie, but he certainly has the potential to do great things with this.

Good direction doesn't have to be flashy direction, and this material would suffer if the hand shaping it becomes too visible. It has to feel raw, intimate, and honest. The biggest challenges in bringing this musical to the big screen will be finding a visual language for the online communication that fills so much of the show and balancing the realism of the world with the surrealism of song. The voiceover diary entries that drive Perks could have gone wrong in a million different ways, but he figured out how to do it without it ever feeling like a "device" in a movie. And while it's not overtly a musical, it has sequences driven by song that feel expansive, beautiful, and poetic (dare I say "infinite"?). 

I'm honestly not a huge fan of Dear Evan Hansen onstage, but knowing Stephen Chbosky is at the helm makes me very curious and excited. Perks of Being a Wallflower is not just one of the quintessential high school films, it is the ultimate "audition" for this piece.

[hork]

Posted: 8/23/20 at 11:34am

To each their own, but I thought Perks was a pretty bad movie that didn't translate from the epistolary novel well at all ("raw, intimate and honest" doesn't describe this movie at all). But the worst problem was that Logan Lerman was horribly miscast.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/23/20 at 11:52am

Again - I respectfully disagree with every word you just wrote.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 8/23/20 at 4:37pm

Perks is one of the few films I rewatch every year. I gain something new each time I watch it. Perfect? No, but man is it good