New musical film CARMEN starring Paul Mescal

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 1/6/22 at 6:58pm

I did a search for anything related to the movie but couldn’t find anything. The upcoming film is to star Paul Mescal, from Normal People, and Melissa Barrera and is directed by Benjamin Millepied.

Updated On: 1/6/22 at 06:58 PM

[JBroadway]

Posted: 1/6/22 at 7:21pm

Sorry - am I missing something? I'm not seeing anything indicating that this is connected to Frank Wildhorn's "Carmen." Seems like a totally separate project. 

But again, if there's a source I'm missing, please correct me. 

Updated On: 1/6/22 at 07:21 PM

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 1/6/22 at 7:40pm

JBroadway said: "Sorry - am I missing something? I'm not seeing anything indicating that this is connected to Frank Wildhorn's "Carmen." Seems like a totally separate project.

But again, if there's a source I'm missing, please correct me."

You know I think I made the rookie mistake of reading Wikipedia and IMDB both of which state explicitly the film is based on Frank Wildhorn’s musical but other articles I read say “the new songs” are written by Julieta Venegas and Taura Stinson. 
 

I’ve edited the post title. My bad!

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 1/6/22 at 7:45pm

It has an original score by Nicholas Britell, with new songs by Britell, Taura Stinson, and Julieta Venegas. Wikipedia is the only site that mentions Wildhorn, so someone needs to correct that.

Updated On: 1/6/22 at 07:45 PM

[JBroadway]

Posted: 1/6/22 at 8:13pm

TaffyDavenport said: "It has an original score by Nicholas Britell, with new songs by Britell, Taura Stinson, and Julieta Venegas. Wikipedia is the only site that mentions Wildhorn, so someone needs to correct that."

 

And on the Wikipedia page for Wildhorn's musical, there's a section talking about the film adaptation - and they even cite a "source," linking to an article that has no mention of Wildhorn! God! I almost envy the unbridled confidence of a person who jumps to a wild conclusion, with such certainty that they go out of their way to edit a Wikipedia page, linking to a source that they didn't even bother to read. 

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 1/6/22 at 8:24pm

So now that we absolutely know for sure that Wildhorn isn’t involved - what are our thoughts on the film?

Millipede is an interesting choice, I absolutely loved his choreography in Black Swan. Plus Paul Mescal is fantastic so no doubt he’ll kill it. 

[JBroadway]

Posted: 1/6/22 at 9:51pm

It sounds interesting enough on paper. It could go either way quality-wise, but I'll be curious to see it. I'm not familiar with Stinton or Vegenas, but I've enjoyed many of Britell's film scores. 

[Globefan]

Posted: 1/8/22 at 3:36pm

Jamie Dornan was originally gonna be in the male lead role 

[Ke3]

Posted: 1/8/22 at 4:23pm

Was excited about this when I first heard about it, but since then In The Heights has dimmed my excitement. She can barely sing and her "acting" is laughable. I know Vida got high praise so maybe she was better there. I found her to be so wooden in ITH.

[Globefan]

Posted: 1/8/22 at 10:08pm

Ke3 said: "Was excited about this when I first heard about it, but since then In The Heights has dimmed my excitement. She can barely sing and her "acting" is laughable. I know Vida got high praise so maybe she was better there. I found her to be so wooden in ITH."

Maybe she’ll have better luck here. 

[Fan123]

Posted: 8/24/22 at 5:29am

This film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.

https://tiff.net/events/carmen

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 2/1/23 at 6:03pm

Benjamin Millepied’s ‘CARMEN’ will be released in theaters on April 21, 2023.

The musical stars Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal.

https://twitter.com/filmupdates/status/1620915201293049856?s=46&t=Ma6vYc4bbP4xmthX_9va_Q

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/1/23 at 6:36pm

JBroadway said: "TaffyDavenport said: "It has an original score by Nicholas Britell, with new songs by Britell, Taura Stinson, and Julieta Venegas. Wikipedia is the only site that mentions Wildhorn, so someone needs to correct that.

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Years ago I learned not to trust Wikipedia. I was interviewing Cathy Rigby for this site and prepared myself  by going to Wikipedia (and probably another source or two) .  I mentioned some of the items I'd found in Wiki during our converation and Cathy was confused because they were blatantly incoorect. I told her thst Wiki was my primary source and we went to her laptop to  read the info about her and she was dumbfounded because so much of it was just plain wrong. She got a member of her staff to correct it.

 

 



And on the Wikipedia page for Wildhorn's musical, there's a section talking about the film adaptation - and they even cite a "source," linking to an article that has no mention of Wildhorn! God! I almost envy the unbridled confidence of a person who jumps to a wild conclusion, with such certainty that they go out of their way to edit a Wikipedia page, linking to a source that they didn't even bother to read."

 

Updated On: 2/1/23 at 06:36 PM