ON YOUR FEET! movie musical/musical biopic in development

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Gloria-Estefan-Musical-ON-YOUR-FEET-Film-in-the-Works-from-Lissette-Feliciano-20240424

On Your Feet, the Broadway musical about the lives of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, will soon be coming to the screen.

Deadline reports that a film adaptation of the musical is in the works from writer/director Lissette Feliciano, who made her feature debut in 2021 with the indie drama Women Is Losers. On Your Feet, made by Sony Pictures, will mark Feliciano's first major studio project as writer and director.

Like the Broadway musical, the Estefan's will be involved in the project, this time as producers.

On Your Feet! is the original musical based on the extraordinary life of 26-time GRAMMY Award-winning husband-and-wife team Gloria and Emilio Estefan. The show features a book by Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Alexander Dinelaris and a score made up of some of the most loved and iconic songs of the past quarter-century including "Rhythm is Gonna Get You," "Conga," "Get On Your Feet," "Don't Want To Lose You Now," "1-2-3" and "Coming Out of the Dark."

Having begun in Chicago in the summer of 2015, On Your Feet! made its Broadway debut that November, played for two years, and received seven Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, three Drama League Award nominations and a Tony Award ® nomination for Best Choreography.

Had a funny coincidence today. I was looking through an old Playbill I had recently bought on eBay and this show was in the How Many Have You Seen? section. Until that moment, I had never heard of this show.

I’ll never forget a hoard of women fighting over the Marquis rear orchestra to be included in that damn Conga line. What a mess of a show.

What a brilliant show to turn into a film!

Will Jerry director or are they getting a more experienced film director?

This could so great. Women is Losers is a strong, quirky, loving film and on screen could be a real spectacular.

^ Please be true! I loved her as Maria

Call_me_jorge said: "Whatever happened to the Beautiful film that Tom Hanks was supposedly producing?"

Variety reported back in July that the project is still in development without Daisy Edgar-Jones. Last year’s writers and actors strikes delayed it further.

Is Rachel Cuban? I thought she was Colombian.

Enough with this stupidity. It’s getting so ridiculous that any day now GONE WITH THE WIND will be cancelled due to Vivien Leigh (a British actress) played Southern Belle Scarlet O’Hara.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Is Rachel Cuban? I thought she was Colombian.

Enough with this stupidity. It’s getting so ridiculous that any day now GONE WITH THE WIND will be cancelled due to Vivien Leigh (a British actress) played Southern Belle Scarlet O’Hara."

Exactly. And with “Selena”, JLo was a Puerto Rican playing a Mexican and, guess what? She ate, and we got over it as a society.

With regards to the movie, honestly, I feel it would be a better medium for this story. When I saw it on stage, I didn’t really find it compelling enough for a full length Broadway show - even though Ana Villafañe and the choreography were spectacular. Considering Alexander Dinelaris’ pedigree is film, I think this could be more in his wheelhouse as a screenwriter

Ana De Armas is the Cuban actress who makes the most sense commercially. Unfortunately, there's the significant problem she can't sing, by her own admission.

I think to get this movie made it would have to be a Rachel Zegler like solution, not literally hiring Zegler but hiring a Cuban actress who was just as unknown as Zegler when she was cast in West Side Story.

Katherina McCrimmon would be perfect for Gloria. Not only is she Cuban but she grew up in Miami.