Musical Movies that should be made

[brad3]

Musical Movies that should be made#1

Posted: 9/27/09 at 9:04pm

Les Miserables and Miss Saigon I think would make great movies!
And Aida, if its done right.

[millie_dillmount]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#2

Posted: 9/27/09 at 9:05pm

Didn't we have this discussion a gazillion times?

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[snarkywannabedreamer]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#2

Posted: 9/28/09 at 12:57am

Miss Saigon is in development.

[roquat]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#3

Posted: 9/28/09 at 12:45pm

So is "City of Angels", and if a stage musical ever needed to be filmed, this is it. Wonderful book and score, and a concept that would actually work much better on film.

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[Colle]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#4

Posted: 9/28/09 at 6:46pm

Where did you hear that "Miss Saigon" was in developement, Snarkywannabedreamer?
Updated On: 9/28/09 at 06:46 PM

[ktabianchi]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#5

Posted: 9/28/09 at 9:50pm

Oh, City of Angels will be brilliant on film.

And now, I know it's the last thing we need, bu I've lately had this reoccurring thought of Kathy Bates and Anne Hathaway leading yet another movie version of Gypsy.

I also think if the whole thing could feel like the commercial, In the Heights would be amazing on film.

[HollyGolightly2]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#6

Posted: 9/28/09 at 9:53pm

"Where did you hear that "Miss Saigon" was in developement, Snarkywannabedreamer?"

I heard about it too. Apparently a few weeks ago there was an interview with Cameron Mackintosh in Britain's Daily Mail that said it was happening. I haven't seen the article online, though. Apparently Les Mis was also mentioned.

Miss Saigon would make a fantastic movie.
Updated On: 9/28/09 at 09:53 PM

[philly03]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#7

Posted: 9/28/09 at 10:27pm

Miss Saigon would be a GREAT movie all across the board. Les Mis .. won't. It'd be fine, but they'd cut a lot I'm sure due to the fact that on screen it just wouldn't look right...(ie: One Day More).

[James885]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#8

Posted: 9/28/09 at 10:37pm

I agree, if there's one musical that's screaming to made into a movie, it's Miss Saigon. The music and the story itself is really cinematic and I think it would lend itself very well to the screen if they were to cut some of the recitative and leave the actual songs.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

[philly03]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#9

Posted: 9/28/09 at 11:14pm

Not to mention the awesome effects with the helicopter scene, amongst others!!

[HollyGolightly2]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#10

Posted: 9/28/09 at 11:21pm

Miss Saigon is one of those shows that feel like they're a musicalized version of a movie, but they're actually an original musical.

[TheatreFan4]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#11

Posted: 9/28/09 at 11:22pm

Apparently Les Mis was also mentioned.

Les Miz has been in development since before the concert was even done...

It's safe to say that it's not happening no matter what they say...

[HollyGolightly2]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#12

Posted: 9/28/09 at 11:24pm

I know it's been talked about for a while, but this article supposedly said it was greenlit.

... Again.

I think it may happen eventually. I mean, it took like fifteen years for the Phantom movie to get made. Though hopefully the Les Mis movie won't suck. Updated On: 9/28/09 at 11:24 PM

[bwaylvsong]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#13

Posted: 9/28/09 at 11:29pm

I would love to see a version of Cabaret that's closer to the stage version.
Les Miz, City of Angels, Ragtime, and Into the Woods would all make wonderful movie musicals!
And I'd love to see an animated Fiddler in he style of Chagall.

[I<3bway]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#14

Posted: 9/28/09 at 11:42pm

I would like to see AIDA, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Jersey Boys become movie musicals.

[philly03]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#15

Posted: 9/28/09 at 11:50pm

"I know it's been talked about for a while, but this article supposedly said it was greenlit.

... Again.

I think it may happen eventually. I mean, it took like fifteen years for the Phantom movie to get made. Though hopefully the Les Mis movie won't suck."

Yeah the 1992 release happened, then 3 years latter, than in 2003, 2005, .. nope not happeneing.

I think for Les Mis they should film the final London Cast and release that on DVD. I really dont see how One Day More could work specifically without cutting some verses or looking cheezy/choppy, and I'd rather not have a Les Mis movie then have it without that.



Others in the "works" I'm looking forward to: Jekyll & HYDE and SUNSET BLVD., the latter which similarly wont happen for a while!

[jonmbway4652]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#16

Posted: 9/29/09 at 12:17am

i have heard that tim burton is going to be doing into the woods

[roquat]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#17

Posted: 9/30/09 at 1:38pm

Wasn't there a rumor of a SUNSET BOULEVARD musical starring Liza Minnelli?

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[James885]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#18

Posted: 9/30/09 at 1:52pm

I've heard the rumors of a Sunset Boulevard movie musical starring everyone from Glenn Close to Meryl Streep. Currently on IMDB it's listed as coming out in 2010 with the only cast member listed being Liza Minnelli with the term "rumored" in parentheses next to her name.

Of course since it's IMDB, it goes without saying that it should be taken with a grain of salt. If it were coming out next year, I think we would've heard something concrete by now.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

[AEA AGMA SM]

re: Musical Movies that should be made#19

Posted: 9/30/09 at 8:53pm

I don't know if I would be able to take Liza seriously in Sunset Boulevard. She would be walking down the staircase and I would be expecting her to trip and roll down the stairs, thanks to her role as Lucille Austero (aka Lucille 2) on Arrested Development.

That and by the time it finally gets made (if ever) there is no way she'll be able to pass as a woman in her late 40's/early 50's.