Luhrmann: "I think we'll see" a movie adaptation of MOULIN ROUGE! stage musical

https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/baz-luhrmann-absolutely-wants-to-make-a-new-moulin-rouge-musical-movie_1553228/

He’s already produced some of the biggest movies of the last century, but Baz Luhrmann truly can’t be stopped.

Speaking at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, Luhrmann revealed he had “absolutely” considered re-adapting Moulin Rouge! into a film.

The hit show, which continues its run at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, is based on the much-loved turn-of-the-century film about a Parisian courtesan who falls in love with a writer. It starred Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. At the 74th Academy Awards it was nominated for eight Oscars, winning two.

Explaining to Getty, he said: “Do a film version of this stage evolution of Moulin Rouge!? The thought has crossed my mind. Yeah, I think we’ll see that. And the preposterous conceit about Moulin Rouge! is that the poet opens his mouth, and contemporary music that we all love comes out of it. So I can see in 20 years you recalibrating it again with new music.”

The original film is a masterpiece. The stage show was a cheap knock off that lacked all the emotional punch of the film.

A remake for those who think the original is too quietly devastating for them. 😂 

I am one of the people who love the stage production more than the movie, whose quick cuts I really didn’t like.  That said, he needs to move one and create more films, not redo what he has already done.

i am also one of those people who LOVED Australia and have seen it no less than 6 - 7 times; I am gobsmacked that he would spend a lot of time producing Faraway Downs, although I have read that he did most of the work during COVID, which makes it more ‘forgivable’.

But he has to move on and create something else that is audacious and controversial and wildly entertaining (at least to some).

 

All I can hear in my head,still, is the dreadful unmusical voices of the 2 lead actors[from the movie].

His moulin rouge musical director/collaborator Alex Timbers should try to convince him to adapt Here Lies Love for the silver screen. That kind of project seems right in Baz’s wheelhouse.

I think his statement is really being overblown here. He didn’t announce plans to get it into production or anything, he merely said he thinks at some point in the future it could happen.