Steven Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY - News & Discussion Thread- Page 19

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/29/21 at 3:19pm

Announced May 28, 2020

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/fiddler-on-the-roof-hamilton-director-mgm-1234619064/

[Musical Master]

Posted: 4/29/21 at 6:26pm

They don't have a cast and a filming date yet, I guess MGM is waiting for Cyrano starring Peter Dinklage to come out this Christmas first.

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/29/21 at 6:42pm

A movie of Hadestown would be tough because you need singers first actors second; if you drop in a star they’d have to be a music star more than a film star.

Chances are Patrick Page is a bigger name to anchor a film than Nick Cave or Iggy Pop, and since “Orpheus is Jeff Buckley” is the whole conceit, you can’t really replace Reeve Carney. As for Hermès, it’s Andre’s show through and through because the part was totally reimagined for him. Based purely on the concept album and then the OBC record, it’s clear the character began as a Tom Waits type, the “folky blues man as reinterpreted through William Burroughs.” But it’s turned into the New Orleans bandleader meets Joel Grey persona we all know and love.

[Globefan]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 10:06am

The publicity tour when WSS comes out will be amazing! I hope they put Rachel and Spielberg together in interviews 

[ItsMeRaul]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 4:45pm

BwayLB said: "I never saw a version of Fiddler on the Roof before. I do like some of the songs from it. Being Catholic myself, stories about Jewish characters don’t usually appeal to me."

Holy cow. This Jew is speechless. Talk about narrow-minded.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 4:52pm

Why? People are interested in what they are interested in. Not really a big deal. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 5:14pm

Globefan said: "The publicity tour when WSS comes out will be amazing! I hope they put Rachel and Spielberg together in interviews"

It may not be so amazing if they zero in on Elgort - which I'm sure they will - as he too plays a lead role.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 6:20pm

It will be amazing all around including for Ansel, the only people bringing up anything problematic are on this website. 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 6:34pm

[NameGreg]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 6:58pm

Sutton Ross said: "It will be amazing all around including for Ansel, the only people bringing up anything problematic are on this website."

Also on Twitter, but those people are just looking for something to get upset about.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 7:07pm

Haha. Yeah, 11 year olds on Twitter don't really count. 

Great photo!!!!

[joevitus]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 7:13pm

dramamama611 said: "A fictional character doesn't NEED closure. That's a psychological or human need. It's not like "Anita" is sitting in hospital bed somewhere, rocking, because she didn't get closure."

I love this comment.

[Globefan]

Posted: 5/1/21 at 7:31pm

I can't wait for the soundtrack to come out too. 

[NameGreg]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 12:04am

That is a great photo, though I wish Mike Faist was in it.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 6:14am

Spielberg: “This has been a journey without precedence: a joyful, stunningly moving, endlessly surprising encounter with the story and score of one of the world’s greatest musicals. My brilliantly talented, fiercely committed, generous and apparently inexhaustible cast and crew of hundreds have given our film everything they’ve got, and already I can say that the film we’ll be releasing owes everything to them, as does its immensely grateful director.  The city lent us its beauty and its energy, and we drew deeply upon its grand, multicultural, multifaceted spirit.

To the people of New York and Paterson, thanks not only for putting up with our trailers, tents, cranes, and mid-street dance sequences; from the bottom of my heart, thanks for the warm welcomes we encountered everywhere, from pedestrians and policemen and neighborhoods and kids. We couldn’t have made our musical without you.”

[BwayLB]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 10:33am

^ I remember reading that on Twitter

[Globefan]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 1:18pm

Which musical number are you most excited to see in the new film? 

[BwayLB]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 1:32pm

^ If I had to pick one, it would be America

[NameGreg]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 1:42pm

Definitely America.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 1:46pm

Globefan said: "Which musical number are you most excited to see in the new film?"

”Lay All Your Love on Me” by Ansel Elgort

 

[Globefan]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 1:59pm

I'm excited for all of the songs. I hope they use the uncensored lyrics that had to be censored in the original film for a number of the songs like Krupke, Jet Song and Tonight Quintet 

[Musical Master]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 2:02pm

The opening, the entire "Gym Sequence", "America", and hopefully the usually cut "Somewhere Ballet" that I'm praying is restored for this version.

A Justin Peck choreographed "Somewhere Ballet" would be a wonder to behold on screen.

[Globefan]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 2:29pm

Musical Master said: "The opening, the entire "Gym Sequence", "America", and hopefully the usually cut "Somewhere Ballet" that I'm praying is restored for this version.

A Justin Peck choreographed "Somewhere Ballet" would be a wonder to behold on screen."

The Somewhere Ballet is usually in most stage productions of the show. It was cut from the original film despite being in all of the script drafts because of Robbins' departure. They were planning on saving the Somewhere Ballet for the very end of filming so Robbins could plan it. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 3:39pm

And he had already begun to plan it; the collector's edition DVD box set a while back had some storyboard art from the ballet on it somewhere. (Can't remember if it was a gallery feature or a quick flash with an explanatory caption in the documentary segment.)

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 5/2/21 at 4:18pm

Just a perfect teaser trailer. Shows you just enough of the movie to give you a feeling of what to expect, but doesn’t spoil a thing.

I’m most excited to see “Dance at the Gym”. It’s always the high point for me watching West Side Story - either in the movie or onstage - and it looks especially colorful and ecstatic from the quick cuts show in the teaser. I’m so looking forward to this.