Rabbit Hole the Movie?

[BroadwayBoy2]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 11:57pm

Is this thing still on? I havent heard on lick of information since it was rumored about a year ago.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:22am

I'm going to one of the press previews of SHREK. I'll ask David Lindsay-Abaire, assuming he's in the audience.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:40am

I hope it's still happening.

It would work so well on screen (in theory at least)...wasn't Kidman announced to be in it?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:42am

Yeah Kidman bought the rights and was going to produce it through her own production company for her to star in.
Sucks since I would have loved to see Cynthia Nixon star in an HBO made-for-TV film.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:44am

Wouldn't it be great if Nixon could just headline the a full-fledged movie version...?

She was so great in the show and I have no doubt she'd be better than Kidman. She's extremely underrated and a brilliant actress.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 1:22am

I agree that Nixon is brilliant, but how can you call an actor who has two Emmys and a Tony underrated?

[pants2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 1:22am

I WOULD LOVE THIS. SORRY MY COMPUTER IS STUCK ON ALL CAPS. BUT YEAH I LOVE RABBIT HOLE A LOT. THE END.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 2:19am

Hahahaha^

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 2:55am

I feel like Cynthia has made enough of a name for herself now (in the movie sense, at least) that she could easily headline this movie. In the event she did, I could absolutely see an Oscar nod. That's if the movie performance would be as brilliant as the stage performance.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:49am

I'm sick of Kidman's clunkers, but actually think she's very right for this, and will probably act the hell out of it. The problem with the film -- it's a very talky affaire, sort of a throwback to the old Playhouse 90 style. Not much to put on screen that's visual, and how many harrowing flashbacks of a dead little boy can you insert?

Remember the novel DEEP END OF THE OCEAN? Everyone thought that domestic drama would make a terrific vehicle for Michelle Pfeiffer, and it was a soapy Lifetime movie that strained credibility at every turn. I fear RABBIT HOLE could end up too much like that if care isn't taken.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 10:14am

As far as a screen performer and even TV actress, Nixon is underrated. As are all of the girls from SEX AND THE CITY. Most people (besides the die-hard fans) think they can't do anything other than chirpy, girly, HBO series. None of them has really broken into the mainstream (besides Sarah Jessica). Yes, Nixon is wonderful but she does something like RABBIT HOLE once in a blue moon and when she's done with it, people seem to quickly forget that she is not just a great comedic actress but is brilliant in dramas as well. I think we saw more of that in the SEX AND THE CITY movie.

I just hope people realize all three women can do things besides play Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.

I guess underrated isn't as appropriate a word as "underestimated" or something to that effect.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 10:57am

While I think Nicole Kidman is all wrong for Becca (her icy air of cool composure robs the character of the innate vulnerability that makes her so crucially relatable,) her involvement is probably the sole reason the film would ever get made.

Keep in mind that while she has certainly gained significant notoriety from SEX AND THE CITY, in the eyes of Hollywood studios, Cynthia Nixon is nowhere near enough of a proven box office draw to anchor a movie (her feature film work is extremely limited, with her credits coming mostly from theater and television.)

And even if a studio was willing to greenlight her involvement, I imagine that David Lindsay-Abaire would consciously not want to use Nixon anyway in order to create a purposeful divide between the stage version and the film adaptation, much the same reason John Patrick Shanley did not want to include Cherry Jones in the DOUBT film.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 2:35pm

Let's be serious though. I get what you're saying about Cynthia not being a "box office draw" like Nicole, but she's certainly not Cherry Jones. Almost NO ONE knows who Cherry is outside of theatre. Cynthia's not exactly a nobody. I mean, she won't get Becca in the film version, but if it were to happen, it wouldn't be as implausible as Cherry getting Sister Aloysius in the film.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 3:33pm

You're missing the point of the comparison, ColorTheHours048.

Cherry Jones wasn't not cast in the DOUBT film because of her lack of celebrity. John Patrick Shanley hand picked all of the leads himself and could have cast her if he wanted to, since he worked casting approval into his contract with the studio.

Instead, he made the deliberate decision not to use anyone from the stage version of the show because all of those actors were cast by Doug Hughes. The only way for him to successfully direct a film adaptation, he believed, was to cast actors he himself chose (all of which he explained in a letter to Jones just before Streep's involvement was announced.)

I imagine that Lindsay-Abaire would have similar feelings (though he isn't directing the film version of RABBIT HOLE, he too has casting approval.)

Even so, I think you're giving Nixon a lot more credit in terms of notoriety than her resume allots. Miranda Hobbs being famous and Cynthia Nixon being famous are two very different things. She's certainly not a shrinking violet, but Nixon has hardly "made enough of a name for herself" to be a bankable film lead, as you suggested earlier.

Besides a hand full of independent movies and some plumb guest appearances in several popular television series outside of SEX AND THE CITY, she is still (by choice) very much a stage actress.

Updated On: 12/1/08 at 03:33 PM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 3:36pm

somethingwicked made the points I was trying to make a lot clearer...I totally agree.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 1:18pm

Regardless, I don't think I would see the movie if Nicole is Becca. Which is a tragedy since it's one of my favorite plays.