Gladiator: The musical

Yes it is true. The soon to be formed "Dreamworks theatricals" is going to mount Gladiator: A musical based on the film using Hans Zimmer's film score as the music for the show. Any thoughts???

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hmm should be interesting...if true. I wonder how they would stage all the fights with all the gore...and animals. ehh sounds like something for the circus to me.

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I can't see how that would work...it would be like "Saving Private Ryan - THE MUSICAL."

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Me, too. Mediocre at best. I was banking on Traffic that year BIG time. MUCH better film, and easily the best that year.

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I even thought Erin Brockovich was better than Gladiator.
Albert Finney rules.

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What the hell? Requiem for a Dream was out that year too and Gladiator still trumped it completely... It's a classic case of the epic being guaranteed the win. Even Ebert (who has gotten increasingly easy to please over the years) only gave Gladiator a couple of stars.

I agree that Burstyn should have won over Julia Roberts. I blame ageism or the fact that Roberts portrayal of Brokovich was so overhyped -- including by the REAL Erin Brokovich.

I agree that Ellen Burstyn should have won that year. She was phenomenal in Requiem. But, for Julia, if not for that role, then WHEN? And you know she HAD to get one, too many people adore her.
I still say that Traffic was a better film than Requiem. I love them both. They are VERY different to say the least. Requiem has such a visceral, insider take on drug abuse. But Traffic was about showing the big picture. And, as in both Aranofsky films, the characters are so distraught, so tormented and sickening that I had a hard time feeling empathy as much as revulsion and sympathy. But I felt for Benicio and Michael Douglas. They felt real to me.
Requiem felt like a symphony. It was pure emotion. It's art. So's Traffic. But Traffic told a more compelling story even while not eliciting as strong of an emotional response as Requiem. That's my thought anyway.

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I think it'll make a good musical, personally. I wish they were using Howard Shores score for the Lotr muscial, that'd be awsome