PIPPIN Movie Cast — Page 2

^ What do aerial gymnastics have to do with anything, aside from their use in the current revival.

There is no indication that aerial gymnastics will even be a part of the motion picture version.

Usually I'm not a fan of the Broadway actors doing the film, but I think Patina absolutely has to be Leading Player. Im not sure if I even want to see it without her in that part

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Lewis: Erik Altemus
Berthe: Bette White

Justin Timberlake for Leading Player

These are the same people who hired Matthew Broderick to do "The Music Man" and who thought Carrie Underwood would make a great Maria. Don't expect great casting choices.

Assuming that this is being filmed at some point next year, that would take both Zac Efron and Emma Watson out of the running. They are already committed to filming projects, which happen to be movie musicals, through the end of 2015.

Won't Patina Miller have a big chance to reprise the Leading Player due to her Hunger Games part (even though it was like one scene)?

I actually really think Beyonce would be a phenomenal Leading Player, provided she has a great director. As a performer, she's dead on for it though- killer voice, great dancer, and just so watchable in the way that Ben Vereen was in the role. I really think she could be sensational.

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I can guarantee you 100%, without any hesitation, that Patina Miller will not be cast as The Leading Play for a major movie musical being produced by the Weinstein Company. As Brick said above, they are currently looking at female pop stars.

I am most curious about the script. This is one of the stagiest shows ever, with constant asides to thr audience, narration and bits of plot based entirely on the fact that the show is a play and has been performed before.

I suspect the whole thing will be retooled from the bottom up, for better or for worse.

I really don't see how well this will transfer to film, especially the Leading Player.

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I feel as though, like Godspell, this is something written for the stage that should be kept on the stage. Unless they majorly rework the show, I can't picture it working. Unlike Les Miz or Into the Woods. It does not have a strong story to back it up. I find the story of Pippin pretty bland but when it's paired with circus performers it is a spectacle. But that couldn't be achieved on film. There are so many other musicals that could benefit from a stage to screen transfer but since its happening regardless of my desires....

I love the idea of Angela Lansbury playing Berthe but it's probably more likely they'd get someone like Betty White to play the role (which I also would not be opposed to). I also think casting someone on the younger side as Pippin would be more believable on film although some like Jonathan Groff could obviously carry the singing required with the part. I think that if they get stars for Leading Player, Berthe, Fastrada, Charlemagne and Lewis, then Catherine and PIppin could be unknowns/broadway actors. Although I feel it'd be more likely they'd put a thespian for one of the supporting roles as they did with Little Red and Eponine.

One of my thoughts for the transfer would be to have the leading player be someone in the kingdom like the entertainer or someone who's hired to raise Pippin. Have the majority of the movie be set in a completely fantastical world then at the end all of the green screens turn off and Pippin is the only one who does not realize he's just been in a movie the whole time or something like that. Then the actor who played the leading player pulls Theo back into the seductive world of cinema. I don't know.