Looks like Rob Marshall's INTO THE WOODS Film Is Gonna Happen Sooner Rather than Later — Page 6

Well, jimmycurry01, in Hollywood she does have to be young, at least in the mid-30s. Actually, it doesn't have to be about age, but having to look young enough. Catherine (while an obvious, predictable choice since she already just did a movie musical) would be fine, but like I said, she's starting to look her age, maybe too much botox. Let's face it, the woman doesn't look as good as she did in her Chicago days.

In the theatre world, it's not as superficial and they don't worry too much about age. But I would like to add that Bernadette looked younger at that age than Catherine does now. Hell, Bernadette still looks amazing, even in her 60's.

What about James Marsden as Cinderella's Prince? Or is that too obvious since he played a similar role in 'Enchanted'?

Well, jimmycurry01, in Hollywood she does have to be young, at least in the mid-30s.

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Madonna for the witch !

But who will Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter play?

Musicals are all becoming like a Christopher Guest film that uses the same cast in different roles. And unlike in a Guest film, it's getting nauseating.

"She may want to stay away from film musicals after the less than enthusiastic response to Rock of Ages."

She wasn't the problem with that adaptation (if you can even call it that when only 4 lines form the show madeit into the screenplay) It is notlike her character even exists on stage

But they're seriously going to need to start dubbing actors since there just aren't enough Big movie stars that have the singing ability needed for a musical. And no, I don't think that Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Sigfriedandroy, Helena Bonham Carter, Nicole Kidman, Johnny Depp, Daniel Day Lewis, ETC. sing well enough to have it sound like they should be in a musical. They all have fine singing voices, sure, but if they weren't who they were and walked into an open call for a musical, they'd be stopped after 2 bars and thanked for coming in.

I love movie musicals as much as the next person but I can't stand to see the scores murdered just because they have to fit a mediocre singers range. Meryl Streep will sell tickets whether her songs are dubbed or not. And believe me, if she is indeed cast as the Witch, there's no way in HELL she has the vocal range needed for those songs the way they're written, so the keys will be changed, parts cut, all to suit a mediocre voice on a brilliant actress.

So let's start dubbing again! It opens the casting up beyond the only 10 or 11 people ever mentioned for musicals and gives them a better shot at getting made if they can get more names interested. (Like Sandra Bullock as The Baker's Wife...)

Well I highly doubt anything is going to actually be dubbed, but if it were going to the Broadway community would be ideal.

Yes, she can. But she won't sell as much as Streep. And I used Streep in what I wrote since it was said that she's Marshall's first choice or she's already attached to it, or something like that.

Hell, why not Michelle Pfeiffer for the witch?! She's one of the most stunningly beautiful women to ever show her face on the screen and she has a better singing voice than Meryl. The idea of Pfeiffer in that role excites me more than almost any other casting I can think of.

with a thin voice--C.Z-J.

I don't think she's an amazing singer, but I don't think CZJ has a thin voice at all. It has rasp, but she showed quite a bit of brassiness/richness in her Chicago vocals.

Updated On: 12/24/12 at 01:28 AM

Yes, when I think "who should play a baby in a film", I think Eddie Redmayne.