Rob Marshall Directing Into the Woods Film For Disney- Page 2

[bjh2114]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:34pm

You people are forgetting that disney can do deep films.

Oh I know! UP is one of my favorite films, and that is quite deep for a Disney film. It's not Into the Woods being "deep" that's my concern. It's the idea that it's a show based on fairy tales (something Disney is WELL versed in), but in a very non-standard way. I just have a hard time reconciling those two ideas, which seem like polar opposites to me. Why not go with a different movie studio if you want to make a film of it?

[lull89]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:38pm

From the sounds of it, it's Disney because that's where Marshall has a deal. If he was with a different studio, it'd be there, or if he wasn't pursuing the project, Disney wouldn't be doing it. It sounds like he and Lapine are taking the lead on this one, I wouldn't worry about Disney doing TOO much to "Disneyfy" it.

[random person 112]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:38pm

Because Disney has the funding and the intrest and after a movie like UP what a better way to follow than a deeper or different take on their own classic material, and to show they are far more capable and versatile than we believe Second, there the musical movie kings. I think if they do this right it could be great. But it could also de a disaster. I would say i can see what there thinking

[Kad]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:40pm

Disney had very little hand in the actual creation of Up- that's all Pixar's doing. Disney does not get involved with what Pixar does.

[JP2]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:46pm

BWW, I am disappointed! 2 pages in and not a single fantasy cast list!

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:48pm

If Disney tones down OR eliminates the deaths and/or darkness, I'll choke somebody.

[Kad]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:51pm

Imagine if this had been an animated film by Hayao Miyazaki. How great would that be?

[HBP]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:52pm

If it's the Lapine book/screenplay, I don't imagine that they will be able to "Disneyfy" it too much in the way we are all thinking. "Into The Woods" is a much better show than "Nine", with a better book and a better score. I am sure that we'll be seeing some great production values and, with the right cast, this could be a phenomenal movie.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:54pm

I know someone mentioned this on the first page, but given Marshall's involvement, Catherine Zeta-Jones will probably be a major possibility as The Witch. She would look absolutely stunning. I think she could pull off the role on film.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:55pm

Disney is perfectly capable of producing a "dark" film.

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:56pm

Disney can and WILL go dark with this, I'm convinced.

It's obviously not for the same market as TANGLED or PRINCESS AND THE FROG. Consider instead the show "Once Upon A Time" on ABC, in which the Disney canon of fairy-tale interpretations is reimagined through a LOST-inspired prism of darkness and moral ambiguity. It's as dark, or even darker, than anything in Into The Woods.

[ReggieonBway]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:57pm

If Disney is behind it, at least it has a decent shot of actually making it through production - I'm just worried about the second act. They wouldn't cut it, would they?

[staunchcharacter]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:57pm

I have this fear in the pit of my stomach that Helena Bonham Carter will be the witch...

[JP2]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 9:58pm

darquegk, you are exactly right.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:00pm

Helena Bonham Carter would also look stunning as The Witch, but I don't think she could handle score, even with autotune and studio tricks. I much rather see CZJ in the role. At least she has some vocal ability, and with some studio tricks, she'd probably sound quite good.

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[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:01pm

Disney is involved in Once Upon a Time, and it's pretty dark. With the success of that show, perhaps they thought the decision to make this movie was only logical on their part.

I'll offer up Marion Cotillard. Witch? Baker's Wife?
I bet Vanessa would want this. And Billy Porter.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:02pm

"There are literally 0 details"

There are three details: Into the Woods, Rob Marshall, Disney.

Literally. In the literal sense of the word literally.

[staunchcharacter]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:04pm

A friend just suggested John C. Reily as the baker to me.

[jdtp12]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:04pm

Any ideas about how they would approach the part of the narrator? Would it work to have him just talk to the audience?

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:06pm

Findingnamo - Now make an informed opinion with those 3 details. Sorry for my abuse of the word "literally."

Literally, I'm sorry.

[lull89]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:08pm

Sondheim's notes in Look, I Made a Hat seem to indicate that in the earlier version of the film script, at least in the new opening number, narration would be voice over.

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:09pm

So do we think the Delacorte/Regent's Park production will happen as well as this?

[binau]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:10pm

Yes of course. They are separate business entities. I don't think one is going to affect the other...(I'm not sure if this is what you were suggesting, maybe you just mean it seems quite 'lucky' to have both of these announced at the same time)

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[E.Davis]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:14pm

Just a little bored on my behalf.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 10:16pm

Yes of course- the film is likely a couple of years away from happening-though who knows perhaps the delacorte production will be an audition of sorts if some big names end up participating this summer (Zeta?)


I've read the proposes screenplay from the 90s and honestly thought it was pretty bad- hopefully it's completely rewritten for this adaptation. I don't think there is anything too dark for Disney but I'm sure a lot will be cut - the stage musical often runs 2:45-- the film will need to run way less