SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer

[Jordan Catalano]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#1

Posted: 3/31/14 at 12:38pm

If Lea reprises her role, which FUNNY GIRL song will she make them let her sing?


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[Jeffrey Karasarides]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#2

Posted: 3/31/14 at 12:40pm

If McG is still directing, I'm just not sure how I feel about this...

[ShakinBaconGirl]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#2

Posted: 3/31/14 at 12:41pm

I love how this "BREAKING NEWS" ends with a question mark...

[tazber]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#3

Posted: 3/31/14 at 12:48pm

McG is being considered for this?

That's kind of hilarious.

....but the world goes 'round

[Jordan Catalano]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#4

Posted: 3/31/14 at 12:49pm

He's been attached to this for years now.

[tazber]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#5

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:17pm

Interesting.

I don't recall any explosions in the play.

....but the world goes 'round

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#6

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:22pm

It would be almost like Michael Bay directing West Side Story!

Updated On: 3/31/14 at 01:22 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#7

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:34pm

I'd give anything for a Michael Bay WEST SIDE STORY.

[someone.else's.story2]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#8

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:48pm

I feel terribly blonde for asking, but who is Mcg?

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ``oscar wilde``

[tazber]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#9

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:53pm

He's directed:

Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Terminator Salvation
X

And some music videos for Korn The Offspring.

....but the world goes 'round

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#10

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:57pm

"He's directed:

Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Terminator Salvation
X"

McG didn't direct X, he's only made both Charlie's Angels, We Are Marshall, Terminator Salvation, This Means War, and the most recently released, Three Days to Kill...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hguXCYL1CuY

[someone.else's.story2]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#11

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:57pm

Thanks. Just looked him up. Odd choice...hope he doesn't ruin it.

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ``oscar wilde``

[CATSNYrevival]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#12

Posted: 3/31/14 at 1:58pm

I hate it when they pretend like they're adding a new song for artistic purposes instead of just being honest about it since it's always really for the potential Oscar nomination.

[Kad]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#13

Posted: 3/31/14 at 2:28pm

Will it be coming out the same weekend as In the Heights?

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[felipenor]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#14

Posted: 3/31/14 at 3:02pm

Well, I hope it actually happens this time.

[tazber]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#15

Posted: 3/31/14 at 3:09pm

Thanks Jeffrey Karasarides, I don't know why I thought he did X.

Of course removing that credit doesn't do anything for him, especially when you add in Three Days to Kill.

They just wash each other out.

....but the world goes 'round

[Wynbish]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#16

Posted: 3/31/14 at 3:12pm

Jordan, be realistic. Lea's Single White Female-esque obsession with Barbra is so deep, she may audition with My Coloring Book about losing Moritz as a friend.

[Subjective Sarcasm]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#17

Posted: 3/31/14 at 3:36pm

I just don't understand how a SPRING AWAKENING film adaptation would work without completely re-writing/re-working the musical's book. Having an early-20s actor playing a child works on stage, but not on the silver screen.

Does anyone else agree? If they re-write the book to make them late-teens, wouldn't it completely take away from the original tone the musical's book (and original play) had?

[Platypus]

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Posted: 3/31/14 at 7:46pm

Am I a bad person if I only associate McG with The OC, and none of the movies listed above?

[n2nbaby]

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Posted: 3/31/14 at 8:01pm

^^^ that is exactly what I associate him with! :)

As for the movie, I think it's a pretty terrible idea. I don't think the musical numbers would work on film and we really need to be honest here, the book of the musical is HORRIBLE. The music is great and I listen to the recording regularly but I don't have any interest in sitting through the musical again any time soon, honestly.

[felipenor]

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Posted: 3/31/14 at 8:07pm

Subjective Sarcasm, when you say the musical is about children, how old do you see them exactly?

[chewy5000]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#21

Posted: 3/31/14 at 8:29pm

In Wedekind's play, they're all 14.

[jimmycurry01]

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Posted: 4/1/14 at 2:36am

"In Wedekind's play, they're all 14."

This is not Wedekind's play. This is a different work based on the play. The age of the characters in the original play does not matter much here.

[CATSNYrevival]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#23

Posted: 4/1/14 at 2:44am

I actually think the material would work perfectly fine on film if the rock concert element from the stage version became a music video concept. If all the songs were filmed like a music video (similar to the Bitch of Living music video that the OBC filmed) it could be a decent adaptation.

[EricMontreal22]

SPRING AWAKENING Film May Begin Production This Summer#24

Posted: 4/1/14 at 7:01am

I would bet anything they film it like a period piece with, as suggested, rock music type fantasy sequences for the songs.