Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
#1Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:30am
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#2Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#4Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:44am
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#5Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#6Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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?
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#8Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#9Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#10Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#11Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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
#12Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:36am
"Miss Saigon-Steven Spielberg"
That's kind of perfect.
#13Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:37amI'd actually love to see David O. Russell direct a musical one day. But definitely not Company.
#14Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:42amMichael Bay is the only director who should touch FOLLIES.
#15Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 8:53amI think David O. Russell would do great with a Next To Normal film.
#16Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#17Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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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#18Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#19Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#20Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
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.
#21Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:43amAt least we'd be assured Streep would be Phyllis.
#22Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:50am
Yea, I don't think Luhrmann is the right fit for the material at all.
#23Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:55amAlmodovar is the only person I want to see touch FOLLIES.
#24Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:55amI'd be interested in Luhrmann's take on something like SPRING AWAKENING.
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