Royal Court's Seagull to become a film

[GimmeABreak2]

Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#1

Posted: 9/4/09 at 2:44pm

According to the Guardian, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mackenzie Crook & Carey Mulligan are all reprising their roles for the film next year as well as Ian Rickson directing.

I wonder who they'll get to play Trigorin (as Chiwetel Ejiofor has scheduling conflicts and it didn't mention Peter Sarsgaard), Masha (I think it would be great to have Zoe Kazan reprise as well) and the rest of the cast.

Any thoughts?
Royal Court's Seagull flies to big screen

[BobbyBubby]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#2

Posted: 9/4/09 at 4:04pm

Good. It was a travesty the production and Thomas were snubbed by the Tony committee.

[RentBoy86]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#2

Posted: 9/4/09 at 4:07pm

I hope it all works on film as wonderfully as it did on stage.

[wonkit]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#3

Posted: 9/4/09 at 8:37pm

Art Malik needs to be in this film!

[iWannaBEaSedaris]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#4

Posted: 9/4/09 at 9:06pm

Phil Seymour Hoffman as Trigorin.

Or how about, no I won't even say it because he is too old.

No I will...

Frank Langella

[GimmeABreak2]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#5

Posted: 9/5/09 at 12:06pm

Totally agree about Art Malik, it'd be great to have him back

[Plum]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#6

Posted: 9/5/09 at 10:51pm

I think John Simm would be a very interesting Trigorin.

[TalkinLoud]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#7

Posted: 9/5/09 at 11:39pm

Please God no Peter Sarsgaard. PLEASE NO!

[jennyish]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#8

Posted: 9/6/09 at 11:57am

YES!

This production was so good.

I chose, and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.

[ColorTheHours048]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#9

Posted: 9/6/09 at 12:34pm

Oh god yes. Best production of last season that was toooooootally snubbed. I hope this film is as perfect as the production was.

[AC126748]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#10

Posted: 9/6/09 at 2:49pm

PSH was a great Konstantin, but he'll never be right for Trigorin. Far too much of a nebbish. Trigorin needs to be suave, sexy, alluring, intellectual--in short, everything Hoffman is not. Alan Cumming, who played Trigorin in the Classic Stage Company production, was actually brilliant. I'd love to see him considered.

I'm happy that Carey Mulligan's brilliant Nina--the best I've ever seen, and will probably ever see--is going to be filmed!

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[GimmeABreak2]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#11

Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:07pm

Oh, Alan Cumming, good idea! I was sad to have missed his version of it (I was sick the one week I was in town during that production...)

[scaryclowns2232]

re: Royal Court's Seagull to become a film#12

Posted: 9/7/09 at 12:43am

YES!

Missed this one, but love the play and was actually quite upset I didn't get to see it. Personally, I think it'll make a brilliant film.