Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#1Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 2:35pm
Unless he gets too old for the role before the movie is made, I'd like to see Tom Cruise as Dan.
whatdoesntkillme
Featured Actor Joined: 8/15/16
#2Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 5:23pm
Well. I don't think a N2N movie would quite work. But while we're on the topic of dream casts, I'd love to see a black cast with LaChanze as Diana.
#3Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 5:56pm
agreed with whatdoesntkillme, a movie version of next to normal seems super unlikely to happen at any point.
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Jallenc32
Stand-by Joined: 8/26/14
#4Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 7:42pm
Tom Cruise and Lachanze are both already too old for the characters as they existed on Broadway. Diana and Dan are no more than 41 years old at the time of the action since she specifically says they were both undergrads when she got pregnant putting them between 36-41 on Gabe's 18th birthday.
#5Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 7:51pm
By the time it hit Broadway, Ripley was 45 to Spencer's 40. Just a point of reference.
That being said...Toni Collette.
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Hamilfan2
Broadway Star Joined: 12/28/15
whatdoesntkillme
Featured Actor Joined: 8/15/16
#7Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 8:38pm
Jallenc32 said: "Tom Cruise and Lachanze are both already too old for the characters as they existed on Broadway. Diana and Dan are no more than 41 years old at the time of the action since she specifically says they were both undergrads when she got pregnant putting them between 36-41 on Gabe's 18th birthday.
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Valid point, but who says an actor must play a character who of the same age?
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#8Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 8:54pm
I can see Naomi Watts as Diana. No idea whether she can sing or not.
I can see something like this working on HBO, Showtime or Netflix
#9Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 8:58pm
Someone once suggested Kate Winslet which I always thought was an interesting idea; and she can sing too
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#10Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 9:02pm
Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#11Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 9:02pm
Gordon-Levitt as Dan? I can't see that...
#12Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 9:22pm
I might get a lot of hate for this, but I think Matthew Morrison would make a fantastic Dan and Shawn mendes would be my dream gabe.
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#13Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 9:23pm
How about Allison Janney? She's a bit long in the tooth, but I think she passes for 45 easily.
#14Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 9:49pm
Um Jake Gyllenhal and Emily Blunt
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#15Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/20/16 at 11:27pm
Kate Winslet or bust
Robert Downey Jr or Hugh Laurie for Dan
#16Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/21/16 at 1:08pm
I am unsure about the acting, and but I think P!nk, would honestly slay the score. She has the grit, and the pain behind her voice to handle a lot of the songs, plus I would kill to hear her sing I Miss the Mountains.
mcsquared
Featured Actor Joined: 3/2/11
#17Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/21/16 at 5:04pm
Alex Kulak2 said: "Unless he gets too old for the role before the movie is made, I'd like to see Tom Cruise as Dan."
But I think he's very against psychiatry as a scientologist so wouldn't work as subject matter
#18Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/21/16 at 5:15pm
Unless they re-write the script (and I'm not saying they couldn't) - Dan and Diana need to believably be able to play 40. The story makes their timeline pretty clear. They conceived Gabe 18 years ago when they were right out of college (presumably at age 22 or so).
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#19Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/21/16 at 5:41pm
A tad off-topic but you know what has always REALLY bugged me about Next to Normal (and it's my favorite show, obviously)? The opening, when it's said it is 4am, then she had a ten minute sex session, then Dan is going to be late and then she's making lunches, the kids are going to school, etc. It doesn't add up and it has always bugged me.
Anyway, I remember the rumors of Kate Winslet and RDJ and that would have been amazing.
whatdoesntkillme
Featured Actor Joined: 8/15/16
#20Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/21/16 at 5:44pm
I think it's meant to reflect how these events are so distorted in her mind. The timeline isn't supposed to be taken literally.
#21Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 10/21/16 at 9:49pm
My full Dream cast is
Pink as Diana
matthew Morrison as dan
Shawn Mendes as Gabe
Sarah Hyland as Natalie
Ben Platt as Henry
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Whateverjsays
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/16
#22Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 11/13/16 at 10:01pm
Call_me_jorge said: "My full Dream cast is
Pink as Diana
matthew Morrison as dan
Shawn Mendes as Gabe
Sarah Hyland as Natalie
Ben Platt as Henry
"
Funny enough, Sarah tweeted last week that she was singing the cast album in the car. I wish she'd come back to the stage
theblackumbrella
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/19
#23Next to Normal Movie Dream Cast?
Posted: 7/1/22 at 9:12am
Y'all Evan Rachel Wood would be an amazing Diana. She also has the voice and versatility for it.
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