Movie Musicals being planned — Page 2

#26

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/14/08 at 9:14pm

i know there are currently talks about new film versions of...

Damn Yankees
Pippin
Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
Bye Bye Birdie
Rocky Horror Picture Show (for MTV)

Hollywood is going Musical crazy right now!!

#27

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/14/08 at 9:40pm

"Hollywood is going Musical crazy right now!!"

I am TOTALLY okay with that, as long as it isn't the American Mall and the High School Musical.

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#28

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/14/08 at 9:52pm

agreed! it is the one really great trend in film night now... that and those hilariously topical "Epic Movie/ Scary Movie" spoof films. priceless!

#29

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Posted: 11/14/08 at 9:53pm

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but "My Fair Lady."

#30

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Posted: 11/14/08 at 10:32pm

My Fair Lady is in the works for 2010, produced by Cameron MacKintosh, screenplay by Emma Thompson, no?

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#31

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/14/08 at 10:33pm

2009 and Future
This is a list of films scheduled for release in 2009 and beyond. This list is subject to change.
Clear Blue Tuesday
Fame (2009)
Follies (2009)
High School Musical 4 (2009)
Jekyll & Hyde (2009)
Mama, I Want to Sing! (2009)
Nine (2009)
The Princess and the Frog (2009) (animated)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2009) (TV Movie)
Ruby Tuesday (2009) (animated)
Aida (2010)
Bob: The Musical (2010)
Carousel (2010)
The Color Purple (2010)
Company (2010)
Footloose (2010)
Hairspray 2 (2010)
My Fair Lady (2010)
Rapunzel (2010) (animated)
Sunset Boulevard (2010)
Wicked (2010)
Jesus Christ Superstar (2011)
In The Heights (2010)

this is everything on wikipedia... so, i mean so might not be true.. but most are :)

#32

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:25am

well it seems universal is finally going to get their wicked movie. They wanted to make it a movie first. But they could'nt get a good screenplay.

#33

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:50am

Here's your Elphaba. She'll be starring opposite Amy Adams as Glinda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mHnsmFMuRM&feature=related

#34

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 7:04am

Pianolin, I doubt half of those are going to happen. Nobody's heard anything about the ones you put as opening next year.

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#35

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 11:21am

Updated On: 6/18/20 at 11:21 AM

#36

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 12:09pm

I thought at the time that when Amy Adams sang What Is This Feeling on her monologue at SNL that she was auditioning for Galinda. Adams and Hathaway really seem like the logical choices at the moment, even though I'm not sure that it is the best possible cast.

#37

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 12:11pm

Amy Adams said once that she'd love to play Elphaba, and I think she could actually pull off that part. But she'd be much better for Glinda. I hope they cast her, Shirley MacLaine, Robin Williams, and some "unknown" as Elphaba (a Nikki Blonsky "introducing" deal)

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#38

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 12:26pm

How old is Tracie Thoms? I would love to hear her take on Defying Gravity...

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#39

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:03pm

Re: Aida
I heard about that like a year ago. Disney wants to do it, with Beyonce in the title role.

#40

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:35pm

and also for aida, they want christina aguilera to be amneris... im ALL For that! she sure does have some chops :) but beyonce?! she is just not right to play a slave princess... ugh, she worked for dreamgirls... but i dont think she would be right for aida... alicia keys? maybe, just NOT beyonce!

#41

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:35pm

and also for aida, they want christina aguilera to be amneris... im ALL For that! she sure does have some chops :) but beyonce?! she is just not right to play a slave princess... ugh, she worked for dreamgirls... but i dont think she would be right for aida... alicia keys? maybe, just NOT beyonce!

#42

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 2:13pm

You mean Sasha Fierce.

#43

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 2:14pm

oh yeah, TOTALLY forgot she changed her stage name... lol that is so ridiculous!

#44

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 2:58pm

"I wonder who they'll get to direct the musical of "Wicked""

Well the rumor now is (and it's more than a rumor actually, although things could easily change between now and then)... Steven Spielberg will direct it.

And I agree with Brody and have been championing Anne Hathaway for Elphaba for a while now.

I do think she'll get it (schedule permitting), and do a fantastic job with it.

Amy Adams would be a great choice for Glinda. She's a little older than Anne (eight years actually), but I still think this combo the best fit for the roles. And she could sing Glinda better than Reece Witherspoon, who has also been interested in doing the film. Reece is six years older than Anne.

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#45

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 3:28pm

This is strange...I guess...but I've always wanted Spielberg to direct a musical film. But my first idea for him would have been "Miss Saigon." Say what you will but I love it (with some sufficient lyric changes) and think between it and Les Mis, it would lend itself much more to the medium.

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#46

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 3:44pm

While I love Anne Hathaway, I think she'd be much better suited for Nessarose than Elphaba.
I think if they cast enough big names around the lead, they can have a relatively unknown Elphaba (like, say, Lea Michele, who would be terrific.)

I was hoping they'd cast younger (still holding out for Kristen Bell as Glinda), but there's no denying Amy Adams would be terrific.

Bette Midler as Morrible, Robin Williams as the Wizard, Lucas Grabeel as Boq (he'd be great)....just find them a decent Fiyero.

#47

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 3:49pm

As much as I hate the idea, I'll put money on Zac Efron as Fiyero.

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#48

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 3:53pm

If Efron ever wants to be taken as a serious actor and not just some heart throb that will sale tickets, he needs to step away from musicals.

My pick for Fiyero...James Marsden

#49

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 3:56pm

Is there a chance that Kristen Bell would play Glinda??

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#50

re: Movie Musicals being planned

Posted: 11/15/08 at 4:24pm

oh yeah, james marsden would be an AWESOME fiyero!