Is Pippin headed to the big screen?

A company in San Francisco just announced their upcoming season. In the playwrights description of a world premiere play, I read this (see last line of the bio):

"JC Lee writes for theatre, film and television. His play Luce received its world premiere in 2013 at LCT3 at Lincoln Center Theater. Lee's plays have been developed and staged at Center Theatre Group, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, Azuka Theatre Company, and other theatres across the country. A graduate of The Julliard School and Bloomsburg University, he was a writer and co-producer for Looking on HBO, where he previously wrote for the hit series Girls. Lee is currently a writer for ABC's How to Get Away with Murder and screenwriter for the Weinstein Company's movie adaptation of the musical Pippin."

Cool! I thought it was discussed but couldn't remember when!

The bio was released yesterday!

It's been a good 3 years since this was announced and in those 3 years Zadan & Meron have done "The Wiz: Live" which they will also produce for an upcoming Broadway revival and they are also working on a live television adaptation of "Hairspray" which they previously produced as a big screen feature in 2009.


EDIT: When the film was originally announced Zadan & Meron tapped James Ponsoldt to pen the screenplay. If they now have JC Lee working on revisions that means the project is still in the development stages and at that point after 3 years anything can happen including the studio deciding abandoning the project altogether.



Weinstein has had the film rights for years. They first announced a film version of "Pippin" when the Weinstein's were still at Miramax. This was right after the huge success they had with "Chicago" back in 2003. Then in 2006 it was announced again, by this time Weinstein was no longer at Miramax and running The Weinstein Company. The 2013 announcement is the third time in a ten year time frame that a "Pippin" movie has been announced.

Updated On: 3/29/16 at 03:23 PM