Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:44pm
So she says.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/115685.html
#2re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:45pmI would think it's a TV movie. Did the article say that? I didn't read it all.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#2re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:49pmRead the first line...silver screen=movie theatre. Not TV!
#3re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:50pmI would like to see her in it.
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#4re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:51pmOh what's TV considered. the small screen?
#5re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:54pmAlthough I am going to hold off on getting too hyped until it's announced officially/the director is announced, I think I speak for us all when I say HOLLA!!
-Benjamin
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RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#6re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:55pmYou don't speak for me B3TA07! I for one am sick of movies turning into musicals and musicals turning into movies, but I am especially sick of movies turning into musicals which then turn into movies...
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#7re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 7:39pm
Ry - Why on earth are you sick of "musicals turning into movies?"
Do you think that musicals should only ever stay on the stage?
That's kind of ridiculous thinking.
#8re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 7:42pm
HOLLA!
Join in, everybody!
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#9re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 8:03pmperfectliar...while I admit there are a small handful of musical movies I do enjoy....overall, I don't like it!
JD2
Chorus Member Joined: 1/31/08
#10re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 8:16pmThis would be great for Fantasia. She was marvelous in the stage musical, so as long as the stage version is translated well to film, her performance would be seen by so many who couldn't see her live.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#13re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 8:47pmI could picture Jurnee Smollett as Nettie.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#14re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 8:49pmMaybe she can win Best Actress in a Movie Based on a Musical Based on a Movie, like on 30 Rock.
#15re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 8:50pmdefyingravity- ur avatar rocks my world!
#16re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 9:17pmLord, I hope the costumes are absorbent.
....but the world goes 'round
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#18re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 9:27pmI really don't feel like the songs in any way improve on what the Spielberg film did not all-that-long ago...personally, I think the idea is sort of ridiculous at this point.
#19re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 9:34pm
Thanks Brian, I hope Felicia and Elisabeth sign on to the movie. This is heart breaking I wasjust on the CP site and was reading the b'way cast and then I went back to it and it was gone terrible shame.
Updated On: 3/6/08 at 09:34 PM
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#21re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 9:53pmI would see this movie. I really love the show and I think that it would translate very well to the screen.
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#22re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/6/08 at 9:53pmI would see this movie. I really love the show and I think that it would translate very well to the screen.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
#23re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/7/08 at 2:59amWhat if she doesn't show up to filming?
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#24re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/7/08 at 3:08am
I really see no point in adapting this musical to the silver screen.
It would work okay as a TV movie a la RAISIN IN THE SUN, but as a full-length feature film starring Fantasia of all people? No thank you.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#25re: Fantasia to star in Color Purple movie?
Posted: 3/7/08 at 3:34am
I've been brooding about this post LONG before the thread ever started. I have to say I'm 100% backing the production for this film for the Silver Screen.
I'd love to see this done as a TV movie, but don't think it would get the exposure it really deserves. I still agree with my entire heart what Scott Sanders said, "This story NEEDED to sing".
However, I don't really think Fantasia really should be filling the role of Celie. No, I never saw her great performance, and I'm not saying she doesn't DESERVE it...I just feel there are other talented actresses who are MORE deserving of this role.
I would love to see this directed by Rob Marshall. And no, it's not because of CHICAGO. In fact, it has NOTHING to do with what he did for CHICAGO...I love love love love love Memoirs of a Geisha and think he could really do some amazing things with The Color Purple.
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
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