FOX doing RENT Live
FOX doing RENT Live
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#1FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:32pm
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/rent-set-as-foxs-next-931551
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#3FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:41pm
OMG whaaaaattt?!?!?!?! This makes me really nervous. Well, excited AND scared...
#4FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:42pm
Wow, overload on the live show announcements this week! Excited for all of them. I hope they cast them well.
Jake Hyslop
Swing Joined: 5/12/17
#5FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:45pm
I'm actually pretty pumped for this, but I definitely don't want to speak too soon...
kofler22
Featured Actor Joined: 9/1/14
#7FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:50pm
I know it won't happen but I would love Rachel Bloom for Maureen.
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#9FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:59pm
I feel like this is a weird pick for something on cable TV that has to be censored. My hope is that they don't cut the swears and just beep them out on TV but leave them in for the DVD...
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#10FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:03pm
YES!!
Okay, I don't even care if she's now a little on the oldish side to be playing her- I highkey need me some Naya Rivera as Mimi in my life! I've been wanting to hear her do Out Tonight since at least Season 2 of Glee haha. Pleeease Fox make it happen!
Also a hard YES on Ben Platt as Mark :)
#11FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:03pm
There's no way this will be anything other than a colossal disaster.
Margo319
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/15
#12FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:09pm
It's FOX. They F*ck everything up. Rent? Live? On Fox? In prime time with children watching?
Nope.
#13FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:19pm
Please cast that Frozen girl, reNt , and maybe the rest of them from the movie
#14FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:26pm
Lea Michele is the only person who should play Mimi.
#15FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:26pm
Marc Platt is producing. I need Ben as Mark. (I also like the idea of Darren Criss as Roger)
Updated On: 5/12/17 at 06:26 PM
10086Sundays
Broadway Star Joined: 5/5/17
#16FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:34pm
They should bring back the original cast! OBC 4EVA!
Seriously though, just keep Chris Columbus away from this.
bexplex
Chorus Member Joined: 5/2/17
#17FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 6:37pm
thirtythirtyninety said: "OMG whaaaaattt?!?!?!?! This makes me really nervous. Well, excited AND scared.."
Why would it make you nervous?!!?
#18FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 7:00pm
Annaleigh Ashford can reprise her performance as Maureen, right? Right????
pupscotch
Broadway Star Joined: 1/24/16
#19FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 7:03pm
Jordan Catalano said: "Lea Michele is the only person who should play Mimi.
"
Lea's not Latina, and with such a large pool of talented actresses to choose from I really hope they pick a Latina actress. I'd love to see her as Maureen though!
#20FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 7:23pm
Lea Michele is going to another network this fall, I believe ABC.
After the Rocky Horror debacle, I can't imagine this is going to be good. Frankly I'm just annoyed FOX keeps going for all the shows that have been filmed and/or adapted to movies previously and have a heavy built-in audience. I know they'll throw a whole lot of money at it, but I find the choices lazy.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#21FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 7:27pm
But she NEEDS to play a Latina
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lea-michele-gutted-not-to-get-cast-as-latina-character-in-west-side-story/amp
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#22FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 7:31pm
Who the **** needs another Rent?
#23FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 7:53pm
Wow, no thank you. I can't imagine this being any less of a disaster than Rocky Horror was.
#25FOX doing RENT Live
Posted: 5/12/17 at 7:56pm
I really hated their remake of Rocky Horror (who wouldn't?) but I'm not writing this off yet. Besides the language and probably Contact, I'm sure they'll be just fine with the content. Even though Rocky Horror was terrible, it wasn't overly sanitized and that is quite a bit more questionable as far as content goes. Then add in their spectacular direction of Grease and I'm incredibly interested.
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