'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus but by Babs herself?

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus but by Babs herself?

Posted: 7/11/14 at 4:42pm

Sorry Babs fans. Warchus won't be directing the film. Hopefully, Babs will find someone else.




Matthew Warchus Passes On Directing GYPSY Movie Starring Barbra Streisand

Updated On: 7/31/14 at 04:42 PM

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 4:45pm

Do they really think this is ever going to actually happen?

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#3

'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 4:48pm

Why doesn't she just direct it herself?

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 4:50pm

"Of note, the screenplay for the new movie version of the hallowed Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical is by none other than DOWNTON ABBEY scribe Julian Fellowes."

So a lot will be "borrowed" from other movies. I'm guessing Rose will have a wise-cracking friend named Evra. Julian will get Steve to write some extra music for a dream ballet. Rose will get a job working at an answering service. All the musical numbers in the show will be seen through Rose's imagination. And there will be a big scene where the star storms off and the producer of the show asks Rose to step up and do the leading spot (i.e. Rose's Turn).

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Updated On: 7/11/14 at 04:50 PM

#5

'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 4:51pm

Jesus Christ time to let this one GO, Barbra. No one wants to see you as Mama Rose. You are too old and you've refined yourself out of existence anyway. Plus, the voice AIN'T what it used to be.

Who are they going to get to play your father? Abe Vigoda?

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 4:59pm

Oh please, Babs could do this role in her sleep. Obviously her voice isn't in the same quality as it was in the 60's, but she's still got better pipes than any other woman who has played Rose onscreen.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 5:05pm

The woman will be at least 75 by the time this thing gets going. Mama Rose is 40 at most at the end of the show.

She needs to stay the f-u ck away from Gypsy. She stinks.

Updated On: 7/11/14 at 05:05 PM

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 5:10pm

If Babs wanted to do this it should have been done years ago, I'll agree to that. But she could easily still sing the pants off this role even at her age. And Her comedic wit is still spot on.

"She needs to stay the f-u ck away from Gypsy. She stinks."

Real mature.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 5:12pm

BARBRA WILL BE DIVINE.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 5:24pm

Ugh. If she really want's to do it, do a concert version of Carnegie Hall and donate the proceeds to AIDS. A film version of GYPSY starring Barbra Streisand is a pointless vanity project that will make Lucy Ball's Mame look brilliant by comparison.

Updated On: 7/11/14 at 05:24 PM

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 6:27pm

I believe this is Lucy on the set of Mame, with no filters in the camera:




Lucy in Mame, with filters:

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 8:28pm

that is crazy about 'Mame'. I mean, I know she looked old as heck on screen, but wow they did a good job trying to make her look younger. Babs should just sing the songs on an album. Love her, but she is getting too old now for a Gypsy movie.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 8:57pm

I agree with Lovebwy. Barbra is too darned old for the role.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 10:13pm

Barbra with filters ...

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 10:15pm

Wait. that first picture of Lucy is from Mame??

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 10:18pm

Google says that red carpet picture is Lucille Ball on the red carpet at the 61st Annual Academy Awards, 1989.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 10:29pm

At least she isn't planning on directing it herself. That would certainly spell doom. Rose isn't a role one should direct themselves in. I have a feeling that's what went wrong with the Midler version. The director was dying and rarely on set, so Bette just played Bette.

Let's face it, this project was already stretching believability when it was first announced a few years back. Babs isn't getting any younger and while she does look great [certainly better than Ros looked in the original film and Lucy looked in Mame], she's not gonna pull off the first 30 minutes of the show. I mean, a 70-something woman with two young children?

Hell, let 'em do it. I'd like to see them try to make it any worse than the first 2 film versions.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 11:06pm

It was a joke.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 11:20pm

Yes the picture is Lucy at the Oscars. One of the last (if not the last) public pictures of her before she died.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/11/14 at 11:23pm

Thus thread took a turn for the absurd and I love it.

#21

'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/12/14 at 12:05am

I just read that the director of Drous[e?]y said that if Ms Streisand doesn't do Gypsy then she will do his film-does everyone except me know that?

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/12/14 at 9:33am

Leslie Uggams, now that's someone who is too old for the role.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:34am

I can't see Babs doing this now, but they can do a lot with cameras, lighting and effects in the studio and everything to make her work in the role.

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'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/12/14 at 11:59am

So they open with the penultimate Rose-Gypsy scene, Streisand closest to her chronological age, then go into sustained flashbacks, taking us back to the stage in a return to the framing device, and ending with That Number. Less jarring that opening with a 70 year-old woman (or one who reads 58-60) tending to a 10 year-old child. If the foreground story is closest to her age, we might forgive the early scenes. Introducing her as Momma to some child who can still pass as "Baby June" could be ludicrous.

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Updated On: 7/12/14 at 11:59 AM

#25

'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Posted: 7/12/14 at 12:03pm

I've never liked the idea of this movie, at this late stage of her career, but with every passing year this truly does get more ridiculous. I actually thought perhaps this wasn't happening afterall. When she was 69 it was silly, but when she is actually shooting the film in her early to mid-seventies, it's just vanity and delusion.

And yes, she will be far older than Lucy was for MAME.