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#26

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/1/07 at 6:54pm

Mike Figgis or Sam Mendes (though just based on filming and capturing the sheer intimacy of a scene I'd give Figgis the edge) for Cabaret.

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#27

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/1/07 at 6:58pm

I don't see Wes Anderson and Company at all. I can see where the idea comes from, but Anderson's completely off-kilter storytelling approach and sense of humor seem like they would work against the material, which itself is very pointed and ironic in a very different way than his film material.

#28

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/1/07 at 8:27pm

Spot on about Anderson and Company--I feel he'd turn it into a caricature--an amusing one though. which is my big fear with Burton and Sweeney

#29

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/1/07 at 9:06pm

Akiva, Helena Bonham Carter has sung in movies before. She sang some in Corpse Bride during the song "Tears to Shed".

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#30

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/1/07 at 9:23pm

I hope Helena can pull off the character voice of Mrs. Lovett, though. "Tears to Shed" is a beautiful song, and she has a beautiful voice. Mrs. Lovett should not. I hope she can do it!! I'm stuck on the idea of Angela Lansbury as Lovett, so I'm a bit of a skeptic about the whole thing.

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#31

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/3/07 at 11:11pm

PJ Hogan for Wicked, he's perfect(He's the one who directed Muriel's Wedding, Peter Pan, My Best Friend's Wedding, Unconditional Love, etc). See those films and you'll agree(ESPECIALLLY Muriel's Wedding and Peter Pan)

#32

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/4/07 at 12:35am

My only concern with Hogan and Wicked is I'd assume they'd want osmeone to really make parts of it a spectacle--something, with the MAYBE exceptions of some of Pan, he hasn't done yet

#33

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/4/07 at 2:40pm

Pan's Labrynth director, Guillermo del Toro for WICKED. I can hear people now, but stop and think about it. With an adaption much like Fosse did to Cabaret, draw on the book and some of it's darker elements. It would still be cross culturally fantastical, ya know?

Sam Mendes for Cabaret. Let's be honest, who wouldn't want to see him translate his stage vision to film.

Peter Jackson for Brigadoon. Couldn't you see the Celtic infused imagery...? It's be Lerner & Lowe meets Lord of the Rings.

#34

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/4/07 at 2:44pm

Spielberg for Follies

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#35

re: Dream Directors For Movie Musicals

Posted: 4/4/07 at 6:37pm

The director of Peter Pan for Wicked sounds intriguing. I think his style for Peter Pan is very much the way I imagine Wicked.

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