In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You

[rosscoe(au)]

In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#1

Posted: 11/7/08 at 12:28am

As reported in today's Variety

Flush from the global returns of "Mamma Mia!," Universal Pictures is tuning up another stage musical transformation. The studio has acquired rights to turn the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "In the Heights" into a feature.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created the musical, wrote the lyrics and music and has played the starring role through its Off Broadway and Broadway runs, is expected to reprise his role in the film. Miranda will produce with Meryl Poster


U which has watched "Mamma Mia!" become the highest-grossing musical in history with $558.8 million worldwide, now has another tuner on the boards. The studio and producer Marc Platt are also in the nascent stages of turning the Broadway hit "Wicked" into a feature.


Rest of the story here

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995395.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#2

Posted: 11/7/08 at 12:29am

Well we all knew about the Wicked movie but In the Heights is a surprise to me.

I think ITH could work really well on film actually.

[MrSweetNAwful]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#2

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:09am

what a surprise!













< / sarcasm >

Not to say I don't like ITH or I'm not excited, I just saw it coming from around the time they were nominated/won best musical.

You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor

"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl

"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott

Updated On: 11/7/08 at 01:09 AM

[withoutyou08]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#3

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:18am

i agree i think ith could make a really great movie if they do it right. they also should have the whole original cast(including karen) because i think they had such great chemistry. i dont think this should affect karen in wss because i doubt this movie will be made that soon. sounds like a great idea to me!

what if susan blackwell hung out with boq, trekkie monster, the SOL soloist#2, and the piragua guy on a daily basis?

[CapnHook]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#4

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:25am

I see IN THE HEIGHTS working better as a made-for-television movie. A feature would work as well. We know already that Jennifer Lopez wants to be in it. Antonio Banderes would work as the father...but I don't think it is a role he would want.

WICKED has been in the planning stages forever. It'll happen when they need to boost the sales of the Broadway show to keep it alive. They'll get really big names for it, obviously.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[BrodyFosse123]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#5

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:29am

First off... its Antonio BANDERAS (like flag in spanish)... and Nikky Blonsky's a big fat whore!

[insertclevernamehere]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#6

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:33am

That's a creep ass picture of Blonski

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

[MrSweetNAwful]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#7

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:35am

lulz

You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor

"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl

"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott

[JP2]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#8

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:43am

This could be fantastic if done write. Depends on the director. Looks like they're going with sooner rather than later.

[Liza + Jesus = Patti]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#9

Posted: 11/7/08 at 1:43am

she should play Shrek.

gross.

[BustopherPhantom]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#10

Posted: 11/7/08 at 2:18am

You ///holes, Nikki looks great!

Where did the bitchiness even come from?!

"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

[insertclevernamehere]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#11

Posted: 11/7/08 at 2:38am

It's not bitchy. I'm not making fun of her weight, I'm making fun of the maniacal Hannibal Lecteresque gleam in her eye.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

[Boq101]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#12

Posted: 11/7/08 at 3:40am

If it's a movie, I can't picture Mandy Gonzales as 18-19 yrs. old on a close-up...

[B3TA07]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#13

Posted: 11/7/08 at 4:04am

^Agreed. I mean seriously, she doesn't even look like that in the Richard Rodgers.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[rowlinvale2]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#14

Posted: 11/7/08 at 4:06am

Antonio Banderes would work as the father...but I don't think it is a role he would want.

I don't think that would work at all.

Je veux vous frapper avec un poisson.

Updated On: 11/7/08 at 04:06 AM

[BroadwayBound115]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#15

Posted: 11/7/08 at 7:50am

I am so excited! But please, no disney channel casting, I don't want to watch or listen to Selena Gomez sing It Won't Be Long Now.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#16

Posted: 11/7/08 at 8:33am

I really think ITH would work as a movie but with WICKED they're going to have to do some major work to make it cinematic. It's just a VERY theatrical experience that I'm not sure would work outside of a Broadway theater.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#17

Posted: 11/7/08 at 9:04am

I don't see IN THE HEIGHTS working as a film at all, mostly because while I just love the show to death (seriously, it's ridiculous how much I love it), I think it has a really awful book (love the dialogue, but the plotline is as thin as Kate Moss).
I'd also be scared of casting.
WICKED, the musical would make a great film.

"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"

[Weez]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#18

Posted: 11/7/08 at 9:04am

Demi Lovato would make a FIERCE Nina!

*is going to hell for yanking people's chains with possible Disney Channel castings* XD

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

[dramamama611]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#19

Posted: 11/7/08 at 9:12am

A plot line as thin as Kate Moss! Bwhahahahaha!

I stealing your simile!!!! The best...evah!


And what has Blonsky have to to with this thread whatsoever? Oy.


As a side note, and I'm sad to say: HSM 3 will be kicking MM off the records as highest grossing musical.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#20

Posted: 11/7/08 at 10:06am

If they absolutely must cast anyone other than the original cast in the ITH movie, then I guess I wouldn't mind Luis Guzman as Kevin or Rosario Dawson as Nina.

But are you there, God? It's me, PiraguaGuy. Please keep Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andrea Burns, and Chris Jackson intact.

Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#21

Posted: 11/7/08 at 10:14am

Don't hold your breath, piraguaguy.

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#22

Posted: 11/7/08 at 10:19am

Well, at least I doubt they'll recast Lin-Manuel.

Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

[crzyray]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#23

Posted: 11/7/08 at 10:27am

ooo no Rosario as Nina... her voice does not have the power to sing breathe, and that is my favorite song!

[broadwayfan7]

re: In The Heights/ Wicked Movie soon to a Cinema Near You#24

Posted: 11/7/08 at 10:27am

I am so excited for this!

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."