Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?

[Jordan Catalano]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#1

Posted: 12/19/12 at 6:31pm

I haven't heard anything in a long time and wasn't sure if this one went in the way of IN THE HEIGHTS.

[binau]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#2

Posted: 12/19/12 at 6:31pm

Was it ever happening?

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#2

Posted: 12/19/12 at 6:33pm

Heh, that's what I was gonna say, qolbinau.

[binau]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#3

Posted: 12/19/12 at 6:43pm

Also, I've said it 10000 times but the role belongs to KATE WINSLET and no one else.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[aasjb4ever]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#4

Posted: 12/19/12 at 6:47pm

I know Rob Reiner expressed interest in adapting it around when it was closing, but there hasn’t been much talk…if at all…since then.

[Jordan Catalano]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#5

Posted: 12/19/12 at 6:50pm

I had thought (and maybe I'm wrong) that Robert Downey Jr. said he was definitely doing it.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#6

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:04pm

I thought Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey were writing an original movie musical starring Robert Downey Jr, not NEXT TO NORMAL.

"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"

[steven22]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#7

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:06pm

I'd love for this to happen...ASAP...Kate Winslet would be a great Diana

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#8

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:10pm

I hope not.

[GlindatheGood22]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#9

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:19pm

Connie Britton would also be a great Diana, if she can sing.

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[Wildcard]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#10

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:30pm

I had Naomi Watts in my head when I watched the show. Not sure if she can sing though.

[Jordan Catalano]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#11

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:31pm

I was thinking more Nomi Malone.

[ChanceEncounter]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#12

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:31pm

Connie apparently does her own singing on Nashville.

But you're all crazy if you think it should be anyone but Toni Collette

[Jordan Catalano]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#13

Posted: 12/19/12 at 7:40pm

It'll sadly never go to Toni.

[someone.else's.story2]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#14

Posted: 12/19/12 at 8:41pm

Naomi Watts could act the hell out of it! Intriguing idea!

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ``oscar wilde``

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#15

Posted: 12/19/12 at 8:59pm

I'd love to see Toni Collette play the role on stage, it'll never happen just practically speaking (there won't be a revival any time soon obviously), but while I think she'd be fantastic she has already played something along those similar lines in US OF TARA. Diana is not the same character, but some of the issues explored in NEXT TO NORMAL were explored in that show, I'd love for someone who hasn't "gone there" yet to get a crack at it to come up with something completely unexpected, Winslet and Watts would be perfection. I know Naomi Watts often talks about how she gravitates towards really intense roles, she'd match Ripley in terms of emotional complexity, but I can't imagine her having an interesting, let alone powerful, singing voice. That'd be a huge problem casting the film for me, I know Ripley got a lot of backlash for her singing but I was thrilled with the raw vocal performance she gave the night I saw the show. Not sure what Hollywood actress could match that in a movie musical.

"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"

[Owen22]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#16

Posted: 12/20/12 at 11:55am

Is there anyone there connected to a producer who could suggest someone pitch this musical to HBO?

During the late 90's HBO held onto the rights of both Jelly's Last Jam and Sondheim's Assassins to create their typically lauded, signature TV movies out of them. They both fell by the wayside.

I think NTN would be perfect for them. Plus they have the Kate connection from Mildred Pierce (though I agree, Toni Collette=Diana--maybe even Showtime which hosted Toni's sitcom).

[Matt Rogers]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#17

Posted: 12/20/12 at 7:24pm

Updated On: 12/20/12 at 07:24 PM

[Bettyboy72]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#18

Posted: 12/20/12 at 7:31pm

Last I heard Madonna owned the rights and wants to play Diana.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[binau]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#19

Posted: 12/20/12 at 7:32pm

Really? fuuuu

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[fingerlakessinger]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#20

Posted: 12/20/12 at 9:40pm

I'm hoping that is a joke.
Cuz if not, that is not one, but TWO amazing leading roles she will have butchered on the big screen.

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[Jordan Catalano]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#21

Posted: 12/20/12 at 9:49pm

Yeah, she really wasn't that good in A CERTAIN SACRIFICE.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#22

Posted: 12/20/12 at 10:02pm

It should be Amy Adams. With Anna Kendrick as Natalie.

[fingerlakessinger]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#23

Posted: 12/20/12 at 10:09pm

Point taken. Let me rephrase that. MUSICAL leading ladies lol

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[Jordan Catalano]

Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?#24

Posted: 12/20/12 at 10:11pm

Well I disagree. I thought she was fantastic in DICK TRACY.