Spielberg JLP
Spielberg JLP
Globefan
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/31/12
#1Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/29/22 at 9:03pm
If Jagged Little Pill ever gets made into a film, Steven Spielberg should be the one to direct it.
Globefan
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/31/12
#3Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/29/22 at 9:24pm
Spielberg is the only person I can think of who could make it work as a movie.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#4Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/29/22 at 9:43pm
He’s not interested. WEST SIDE STORY had many layered reasons why he chose to re-adapt it.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#6Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/29/22 at 10:39pm
Only after he finishes directing Madonna in the “My Fair Lady” remake.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#7Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/29/22 at 11:17pm
I cant see him be interested in the material, at all.
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#8Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/30/22 at 12:03am
It's not so much that I'm outraged by the suggestion, mostly just confused and curious what made this idea occur to you?
#9Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/30/22 at 12:25am
If we're talking about directors who recently made musical films, Lin-Manuel Miranda would be a much better fit than Spielberg.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#11Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/30/22 at 11:13am
Spielberg will make JLP shortly after Zack Snyder releases his “Bye Bye Birdie” remake.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#13Spielberg JLP
Posted: 1/30/22 at 2:51pm
1. Making it into a movie is completely not necessary.
2. Not all musicals need to be made into movies. At all. Not all movies need to be made into musicals. Remind me-did Dear Evan Hansen do well? For every tick, tick, BOOM and West aside Story, there are musicals that will NOT work as a movie. Let’s leave them alone, shall we?
#14Spielberg JLP
Posted: 2/1/22 at 9:46am
Spielberg doesn't really seem the type who would be invested in directed a more female-driven film? Aside from The Color Purple, back in 1985, I'm hard pressed to recall any other times.
To be clear, we don't need a musical version of this show, but if one was ripe for a female director, it's JLP. But to name a few: Greta Gerwig, Lisa Cholodenko, Sian Heder, Jessica Yu, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Tricia Brock, Michelle MacLaren, and Reed Morano. (Google them and you'll find a lot of these names between film and some of great episodes of TV.)
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#15Spielberg JLP
Posted: 2/1/22 at 3:04pm
I would like to see what Spike Lee would do with it.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#16Spielberg JLP
Posted: 2/1/22 at 4:05pm
Martin Scorsese has to direct BKLYN and that's all there is to it.
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#17Spielberg JLP
Posted: 2/1/22 at 4:49pm
uncageg said: "I would like to see what Spike Lee would do with it."
This actually occurred to me as well.
I agree with everythingtaboo that it would probably be better if a woman directed. But stylistically speaking, I feel like Spike Lee is one of the only artists I can think of who can do something that's super messy, and wildly heavy-handed, and still pull it off. And Jagged Little Pill is the epitome of a heavy-handed mess. Another director would have to rein in the script, and do a massive clean-up job it. Spike could put his stylistic spin on it and potentially make it work as-is.
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