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Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
#75Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 1:36pm
Yeah I'd rather have Rob Zombie direct WICKED than Daldry what's-his-name.
Updated On: 12/2/14 at 01:36 PM
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#77Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 1:42pmI'd like to see Rob Marshall find a way of doing "Kiss of the Spider Woman" without making it too similar to "Chicago"
#78Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 1:44pm
It would be so cool if Rob Marshall have the ghosts think they're still doing their job and seeing the guests and the guests acknowledging them.
Nathan Fillion as Buddy Plummer, make it happen Marshall! Make it happen!
#79Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 1:49pm
I don't think Follies would make a very good movie... despite a wonderful score, its book was and always will be a mess.
However, if ever there were a musical for Marshall to film with the "the musical numbers are in their heads" concept, it'd be Follies.
#80Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:04pm
I'm all for a film version of FOLLIES-- it actually seems like a property ideally suited to the screen. Let them use every corner of the theater, much the way BIRDMAN does and does fantastically. I actually think the weaknesses in the book allow room for rich new explorations in the screenplay, new ways to weave flashbacks of their lives 30 years before into the events happening on the stage during the reunion. Look at Ken Russel's THE BOYFRIEND to see how well a feature film can make a cinematic meal of a stage-bound property and make it soar. Look at ANNA KARENINA for a recent breathtaking example that mixed fantasy and choreography and stage magic dazzlingly well.
Speaking of Anna, I'd be thrilled if Joe Wright took on the directing of a FOLLIES, as long as Sarah Greenwood was his designer again.
#81Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:05pmThe Widow Goldman will find some way to f*ck it up.
#82Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:12pm
I think any movie adaptation of Follies is doomed to fail.
We'd be far, far better off if Craig Zadan and Neil Meron did a television version of it in an actual old theater.
They could get any of a number of 50-something performers for the four leads (including Christopher Walken for Buddy) and some old broads for the specialty acts. They could have cameras all over the theater and tape the book scenes in the lobbies and lounges and the pastiche numbers on the stage.
Since they wouldn't have to construct sets, perhaps they could spend the set budget on Loveland, reconstructing Boris Aronson's Loveland designs.
But I worry for what unimaginative ghost effects any film version would feel compelled to create.
#83Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:12pmActually, while we're talking of remakes- A Funny Thing...Forum needs one that doesn't excise 3/4 of the score.
#84Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:13pm
THE WIDOW GOLDMAN
#85Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:17pm
YES, PLEASE!
I think it could be absolutely fantastic.
#86Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:19pmI don't know about that PalJoey, there's some creative and imaginative people in Hollywood out there who would do justice to FOLLIES without resorting to live production on television which would be a HUGE disservice to FOLLIES big time.
#87Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:26pm
I'm just thinking of how magical the first moments of the most recent revival were, with the ghosts wandering the theater and that lush score washing over you. That could be very cinematic.
Also, make the Loveland sequence in 3D!
#88Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:32pm
BTW growl, THIS is Widow Goldman.
Updated On: 12/2/14 at 02:32 PM
#89Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:38pmChristopher Walken is 71, way too old for Buddy. Robert Downey, Jr turns 50 next year, and would be my first choice for the role.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#90Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:41pm
PalJoey, of course your ideas for a Follies movie are best. I think filming in the New Amsterdam would be the best idea because that was were most of the Ziegfeld Follies were. I think they could do a little more than the Loveland designs for the OBC and do someting insanely lavish, because in the script they describe as the most lavish Folly imaginable. They could do something like The Great Ziegfeld with the beyond spectacular sets.
Updated On: 12/2/14 at 02:41 PM
#91Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:45pm
^I agree Loveland needs to be more lavish than Boris' great original sets. Something along the lines of the great musicals of MGM's golden age.
If Rob Marshall does want to go authentic he'd find the perfect dilapidated theater in the country. He DID scout around for places to film CHICAGO before filming began.
#92Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:13pmYou should know that the CHICAGO theater was a set built on a soundstage in Toronto. Credit to John Myhre's cool design.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#93Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:30pmVincent Minnelli, only man to do it (and only in his prime), isn't with us, alas. I'm terrified of it becoming "cinematic" in the worst sense. All those iconic musical numbers, appropriately framed by the proscenium, opened up. One of the thrills of "Loveland" was its startling ability to transform the Winter Garden into a Broadway theater of the past, literally before our eyes (the Marquis couldn't pull that off). The Winter Garden became, the Winter Garden of the 1940s. I don't know how a film will match that special magic, no matter how cleverly it's designed.
#94Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:40pm
Auggie27, you're very lucky to have that memory. Most of us don't.
But I do have memories of what made the revival special, and a talented film maker could bring out even more.
Follies strikes me as the kind of show that could make an amazing movie, if all the stars align correctly.
#95Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:40pm
Auggie27, you're very lucky to have that memory. Most of us don't.
But I do have memories of what made the revival special, and a talented film maker could bring out even more.
Follies strikes me as the kind of show that could make an amazing movie, if all the stars align correctly.
#96Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:44pmIn a few years, Toni Collette will be age-appropriate for Phyllis. We should wait until then.
#97Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:51pmToo bad Bob Fosse's dead.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#98Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:57pm^ yes, and not because of Folies
#99Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Posted: 12/2/14 at 4:41pmToni Collette has to do the NEXT TO NORMAL movie first.
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