Pippin Film Adaptation! — Page 2

Pippin's book is of its time, very 70's Everyman. That doesn't make it a bad book. Its also a better book than a lot of our "best" musicals of late (I love "Once" but let's face the facts...
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Imagine, in this day and age of the scene-by-scene adaptation of "Legally Blonde the Musical" a musical theatre book that actually asks the audience to think in metaphor...

Kanye?

Oooo....I kinda love that Lady Gaga as Leading Player idea (much better than Gaga as Louise). If there is anyone who can be simultaneously seductive and menacing, it's her.

Really like the idea of Jayma Mays as Catherine!

Broadway Guy, I love your suggestions, not too crazy about Hugh and Toni though.

If they Made this in the 80's then i would say Michael Jackson in a heart beat. He would be amazing.

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My Ideas for Casting:

Pippin:
Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Zac Efron.
Darren Criss.
Daniel Radcliff.
Aaron Tveit.
Any hot glee boy really.
Logan Lerman
Josh Hutcherson
Nick Jonas
Chord Overstreet
Joe Jonas
Kevin Jonas
Justin Bieber ( dont shoot me)
Drake Bell
Jamie Bower
Romeo Miller
Harry Styles
Jonathon Groff

LP:
Taye Diggs.
Jesse L Martin
Kanye west
Hugh Jackman
Jamie Fox.
Toni braxton
Elijah Kelley
Beyonce
Adam Lambert
Lady Gaga
Johnny Depp
Usher
Halle Berry ( can she sing)?
Anika Noni Rose
Janet Jackson
Eddie Murphy

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 10:32 AM

Beyonce as the Leading Player would be perfection. I might not be her biggest fan, but I think she would play the role brilliantly.

I'm kinda liking the female seductress angle on the leading player. I'm not a fan of Taye Diggs I'm sorry to say.

Groff..meh. He could certainly pull it off but im guessing they are going to want a Name for pippin and groff has done some mainstream things but idk who knows. If they get a huge celebrity to play LP like Beyonce or Kanye then they wouldn't need a celeb to play pippin and they could cast a broadway actor for the role. But i still would LOVE to see JGL in the role.

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 11:39 AM

JGL's getting a little old for it. Yeah, he's only in his early thirties, but he's not quite the young student who gets bruised by life anymore. He already did that to perfection in (500) Days of Summer. Most actors don't like to retread old ground.

Given the success of this revival and its similar casting choice, I'd kill to see Beyonce as the Leading Player. She's got the dance skills, the voice, the talent overall.

Interesting note: in the initial draft I saw of the screenplay (by another writer), the Leading Player was actually scripted as a female. I've heard there were memos arguing back and forth about it between the studio and the writer, as the Weinsteins (then head honchos at Miramax) were really keen on replicating the experience they first saw on Broadway as kids, and felt the Leading Player should be male.

The screenwriter made a fantastic argument in response that the Leading Player's motivation, which is absolutely vital and central to the story, is to lead the character of Pippin to his destruction, and that's essentially genderless. The metaphor of the Leading Player and all she represents as the ultimate temptress played into the idea of "complete fulfillment" being the seductive element, and so rather than devolving too much into a conflict between two women (Catherine and the Leading Player) over a guy, her being seductive to Pippin physically is just more of the metaphor.

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Updated On: 5/8/13 at 11:55 AM

I think Hugh would be better suited for Charlemagne.

If we're going with a white guy as the LP, then I say Adam Lambert, he was born to play that role.

Harry looks too young and adorable to be the LP. That role needs to be played by someone with a much darker, more glamorous persona.

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 12:14 PM

Would Justin Timberlake be too old?

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Is Pippin supposed to be a specific age, or age range?

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