Ice Cube as 'Fagin' in Oliver Remake...

Hi,

More news announced regarding the Oliver remake. Ice Cube is set to co-produce and play Fagin..thoughts?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Danny-Strong-Signs-on-as-Screenwriter-for-Disneys-OLIVER-Remake-20180118

Ah yes, following in the footsteps of that other smash cross-genre hit with inexplicable casting choices, the 2014 remake of Annie.

Updated On: 1/18/18 at 05:22 PM

'modern musical remake'??

What will that mean? Set in a different era ? Poorhouse, children pickpockets? Could be set in those slums in Argentina[?] Fagin will have to be careful he doesn't come across these days as a pederast.

Hope they don't turn those kids into rap artists.

Oliver belongs where it is set and that era---leave perfection alone.

As much as I HATE updating period pieces to modern times, I will say that Oliver! is a lot more rooted in reality than Annie is so I could actually see this story being a bit more adaptable to modern times. I'll wait to judge until we hear more about this "update." Also, yes Ice Cube is not the world's greatest actor but Fagin does sort of sing speak all of his songs so that could easily be adapted into rap. I just pray that not all of the songs will be torn to shreds the way Annie was.

I work at a high school in the Bronx, and the number of students there who *adored* the Annie remake is huge. Every time we have non-instructional theater periods, they ask to watch it--and these are 14-18 year olds.

My "inexplicable casting choices" are their representation.

cb981 said: "My understanding was that this was going to be a separate musical adaptation of the novel, not an update of the classic version.

It still makes me want to violently vomit."



No. It's an adaption of the classic Lionel Bart musical.