Rob Reiner wants to make N2N Film — Page 3

^Facebook, I believe (though I'm not one of the privileged 5,000 friends with her).

EDIT:
Dan: Robert Downey Jr.
Diana: Gwyneth Paltrow
Natalie: Ellen Page (if she can actually sing)
Gabe: Matthew James Thomas
Henry: Cory Monteith
Dr. Fine/Madden: Matthew Morrison

Updated On: 12/2/10 at 10:27 PM

Matthew Morrison doesn't read 40-ish or old enough to have a teenage kid.

Ellen Page would pull of the Natalie attitude if she could sing it.

Haha, Henry is Adam Brody, you're right- well, Adam Chanler-Berat is Adam Brody.

They wouldn't have to make Lea Michele more ugly. Meghann Fahy is a good deal better looking than Lea and she makes it work.

I wouldn't be surprised if Zac Efron were cast in something like this, but it would upset me. I really don't like him.

Oh, and no thank you to Zellweger or Zeta-Jones for Diana.

Mary Louise Parker as Diana
Hunter Parrish as Gabe
Neil Patrick Harris as Dan
Anna Kendrick as Natalie
Corey Monteith as Henry
John Stamos as Doctors

"Natalie: Watch this one turn out to be some tween poptart...like Taylor Swift, Taylor Momsen, Justin Bieber..you know...the usuals"

I think Bieber would make a terrific Natalie. He's absolutely perfect!

I would guess that the two doctors will be played by different actors if a movie version does get made.

While I think Toni Collette would be great I would also guess that it would be seen as too close to Tara for it not to be appear to be too little of a stretch for her. I know the characters suffer from totally different personality/mental disorders, but many people would look only at the surface details (suburban family being "torn apart" by mom's mental disorder) and immediately jump to that conclusion.

it would be cool to see this done with a black family ,asian or latino family!But if the movie version MUST be made I really want Aaron Tveit , Jennifer damiano and Alice Ripley to reprise their roles!I think movie musicals work better with the original cast (if possible.)usually,not the flavor of the week(justin beiber and Lea Michele i'm looking at you!)but why can't they just also record the last broadway performance of N2N?

Updated On: 12/3/10 at 01:42 AM

i thought Rent was good but i can't say the same for the Producers since I never saw it.But with Phantom of the Opera they picked the wrong people who never done the production before.I know "Stars"pull money in but that dosn't mean it's gonna be automatically good.Look at Mama Mia.

I think at least Alice Ripley should be cast. The rest of the cast can be the box office pulls. I'm a little worried because some of the songs take place in different places (i.e. It's gonna be good, Why Stay?, Make up your mind/ Catch Me I'm Falling?, etc.) And a split screen would be tacky. And a song like "Who's Crazy" the back up (meaning the rest of the cast with glasses) might be taken out and that's one of my favorite parts. So it can be done right, keyword CAN.

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Robert Downey & Toni Collette would be just about perfect, as would Anna Kendrick. I could see Mark Salling as Gabe.

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I don't think Alice would make the transition to film very well, but that's just my opinion.

"IF Sarah Hyland (Modern Family) was a little bit older, I'd think she would be a good candidate for the role. However, I've yet to hear her sing."

Sarah Hyland is currently 20. I'm curious how that is not old enough to play the high school aged Natalie. She was also in both the Off-Broadway and Broadway runs of Grey Gardens, as well as various workshops, including Bye Bye Birdie and Shrek before she moved to L.A, so I would say singing in and of itself is not a problem. Whether or not her voice is right for the role is another question, of course.

And why do people automatically assume that a split-screen is the only way to handle a song taking place in multiple locations at once. What makes movies great is that you have a variety of options available to you; fades, cross cuts, dissolves, double exposures, etc, etc. In the theatre during some sequences you can't be seeing everything all at once due to the natural limitations of the human field of vision. Your eye bounces around the stage. That's why they use lighting and staging techniques during a sequence like that to draw your focus to the person who's most important at the moment. Obviously film can make this even easier than it is on stage.