Doesn't anyone write anything anymore? Of course! Glory Days, In My Life, People in the Picture, Scandalous, Blind Date...
I do hope this trend stops in the near future. Perhaps as more of these flop and produce disastrous results, theatregoers will start realizing the movie itself is probably better and can be rented for a lot cheaper than Broadway tickets. Yeah! Then we wouldn't have dreck like Sweet Charity, Promises Promises or A Little Night Music! If it's based on a movie, it's automatically worse than anything original or any show adapted from any other source! Boo movie-only adaptations! Or, boo movie-only adaptations produced after the year 2000! Or, boo musicals adapted from films less than 50 years old! Booooo! Am I doing that right? I want to sit at the cool table.
I imagine some rights would need to be ironed out with regard to Moulin Rouge already having been adapted for the stage in Germany. And Edward Scissorhands was adapted as a ballet featuring an extended score by Elfman.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian