Streep's new song reportedly cut from final film — Page 5

Here is the full article from EW:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/14/into-the-woods-rob-marshall/

^That's been posted already, but thanks regardless.

It was a silly thing to promise, seeing that unless it was filmed exactly as it is on stage (which we all know it wasn't) there isn't any way everyone's favorite moments are in ("Ever After" was one of mine). Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's called an adaptation for a reason.

I definitely think that the loss of that new song means Rapunzel will die. Who cares about what was in and out at a screening over a month ago, they've clearly been doing lots of work on it so who knows what changes have been made. Does anyone think they'll go and put the "Lament" back in? It's probably unlikely, but who knows.

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That part was always there.

^Same here. None of the cuts really bother me.

"^It would've been amazing if the songs in Guido's mind took place in real life and no one notices at all that these women appeared in Rome. But no, the screenwriters felt restricted to a "soundstage" because they felt it was the only way to make it "believeable" which isn't so. "

Am I missing something re Nine? You keep saying the producers and the screenwriters forced all this on Marshall--but wasn't it all ultimately Marshall's concept they were going with?

Your last point is valid. We'll have to agree to disagree on the rest--I think with most film's it's the director's vision you see. And Marshall apparently did do uncredited collaborations on the screenplay. There are exceptions (sometimes a producer is so in control that its really his vision--think Selsnick and Gone with the Wind,) but... Either way, I think marshall could have handled the screenplay with more imagination.

It is not that a song played over the credits is ineligible, but rather it hinders it from being nominated/winning based on new criteria for the Best Song award that went into effect for the 2008 Oscars or the year the Academy screwed over Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Best Song's criteria used to be based on the song, and the context within the film. Then they changed the rules so that Best song is solely based off the song within the film. This may not seem like much but it meant that producers and studios could not longer send copies of the song on CD or a copy of it on the score to show its complexity or craftsmanship. Now they can only show a clip of the song as it is shown in the film, so songs that play only during the credits are severely hurt because they have no context within the movie.
Thus a song like Come So Far, which I can guess will likely be added as a curtain call to a revival of Hairspray, which was actually an excellent song was not nominated because of its use solely in the credits and instead a only songs that were in Slumdog Millionaire and a song from Wall-E were.

If it is in the credits, Sondhiem will likely be handed the Globe, but the Oscar is another story.

It's worth noting that WALL-E's song was only in the end credits, but those credits did continue the story in a stylized fashion.