Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#1
Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:30amBroadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#2
Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:35amCrucify me if you will but I really don't think FOLLIES would make for a successful movie musical and it's one of those musicals that while it is one of Sondheim's best does not have a universal across-the-boards appeal. It's one of the (many) reasons I also feel NINE failed on the big screen as well.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#4
Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:44am
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Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#5
Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:46amThe idea of a Follies film is nothing new. I'm not quite sure how it would work without being an unfaithful disaster like Nine.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#6
Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:58am
Well, Marshall's certainly the wrong director. It seems like he's becoming the go-to musical-to-movie guy, and that's a mistake. With ITW, when he was announced, I remained cautiously optimistic, but for FOLLIES? No. He's just the wrong choice.
Why don't really terrific and versatile directors touch musicals, especially good musicals?
I want a FOLLIES by PT Anderson.
I want an ASSASSINS by David Lynch.
I want a Coen Brothers ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.
I want a SUNDAY by Mike Leigh.
I want MERRILY by Wes Anderson.
I want a PASSION by Alfonso Cuaron.
Is this so much to ask?
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#8
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:27am
"I want a FOLLIES by PT Anderson."
This is literally the worst suggestion I have ever seen anywhere. Rob Marshall could not have asked for a better recommendation.
My God, PTA's FOLLIES would be the whiniest, most self-indulgent movie of all time.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#9
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:27am
Um...I don't know...I like Marshall as much as the next gal but I agree that Follies is too "stagey" (so to speak) to work on film. It's magical in a theatre, and I think some of that would be lost onscreen.
Although I'd LOVE if they did what they're doing with Into the Woods and cast some lesser-known stage actors in the smaller roles because most of them get their own song.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#10
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:28am
"This is literally the worst suggestion I have ever seen anywhere."
You are literally everything wrong with everything.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#11
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:32am
"Why don't really terrific and versatile directors touch musicals, especially good musicals?
I want a FOLLIES by PT Anderson.
I want an ASSASSINS by David Lynch.
I want a Coen Brothers ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.
I want a SUNDAY by Mike Leigh.
I want MERRILY by Wes Anderson.
I want a PASSION by Alfonso Cuaron."
Here's my response to that:
Beautiful-Ron Howard
Company-David O. Russell
Miss Saigon-Steven Spielberg
Next to Normal-Spike Jonze
Spring Awakening-Marc Webb
Wicked-Francis Lawrence
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#12
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:36am
"Miss Saigon-Steven Spielberg"
That's kind of perfect.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#13
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:37amI'd actually love to see David O. Russell direct a musical one day. But definitely not Company.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#14
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:42amMichael Bay is the only director who should touch FOLLIES.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#15
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:53amI think David O. Russell would do great with a Next To Normal film.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#16
Posted: 12/2/14 at 9:43am
I could see Rob Marshall directing Follies. He's probably the only person who would dare do it.
He also has an excuse for the actors to be singing. I know he looks for those things when directing a musical. Follies is a really great piece that could use a little tweaking. With a good team working on it, it has the possibility of becoming a great film that could win major awards.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#17
Posted: 12/2/14 at 9:48amFollies? Rob Marshall? No. Baz Luhrmann, maybe, if he could lose the Bazmark imagery that fills his Velvet Curtain series.
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Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#18
Posted: 12/2/14 at 9:51am
But would it be "Stephen Sondheim's Follies" or "Baz Luhrmann's Follies?"
All joking aside, I can only imagine how lavish Mr. Luhrmann would make the Loveland sequences.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#19
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:09amI honestly thought that Luhrman would be the best fit. Follies needs subtle moments and big lavish moments. I don't think that the score should be tampered with at all though and I'm not sure that, that would happen under Luhrman's direction.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#20
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:12am
All joking aside, I can only imagine how lavish Mr. Luhrmann would make the Loveland sequences.
And they would be utterly and entirely wrong.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#21
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:43amAt least we'd be assured Streep would be Phyllis.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#22
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:50am
Yea, I don't think Luhrmann is the right fit for the material at all.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#23
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:55amAlmodovar is the only person I want to see touch FOLLIES.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#24
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:55amI'd be interested in Luhrmann's take on something like SPRING AWAKENING.
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