Shakespeare in Love Musical

[hermionejuliet]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 7:52pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118904.html

Ok -- I'm very against movies being turned into musicals, but this idea excites me. I could see it being really horrible or really fantastic depending on the type of songs they come up with....

[allofmylife]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:02pm

Damn.

Mark Norman wrote Shakespeare in Love. Tom Stoppard re-wrote it. As usual, Norman is completely missing from the credit, despite winning the Academy Award and creating the concept and every character and all the situations.

But it could make a great musical.

[zepka102]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:18pm

This is one of my FAVORITE movies. I still can't decide how I feel about this idea though.

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:20pm

Stoppard ripped off others, too. The initial idea of a musical about how Shakespeare was inspired to write Romeo and Juliet was already done years ago. It was called "Star Crossed Lovers." Talk to Richard Haase for that whole story.

[amalou]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:24pm

I adore this movie. I don't think it needs to be turned into a musical, but I'm curious.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 10:43pm

I wonder who will write it.

[madophelia]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:24pm

Mark Norman wrote Shakespeare in Love. Tom Stoppard re-wrote it. As usual, Norman is completely missing from the credit, despite winning the Academy Award and creating the concept and every character and all the situations.

Having read the script with only Marc Norman's name on it, I'd say he can thank his lucky stars that the Writers Guild required his name to remain on the project. As I recall, Norman gave his son credit for the concept, so even that wasn't his. The final product, the one that won the Oscar, was a Stoppard work. Other than some character names, little of Norman's original script was filmed. Thank goodness!

All you have to do is look at Marc Norman's filmography over at the IMDB to see what he's capable of and that he hasn't done anything since.

The film's Oscar was due entirely to the way Stoppard completely elevated the concept, plus Miramax's aggressive campaigning.

Stoppard's recurring line: "It's a mystery" sums it up.

Marc Norman's filmography Updated On: 6/21/08 at 04:24 PM

[Magica]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 8:29pm

love the movie but i hate the trend of churning out movies to musicals.