THE NEXT MOVIE MUSICAL WILL BE...- Page 2

[kim1061]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:25pm

producers is coming up

[LittleBitRacist]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:27pm

A movie of the Wicked NOVEL? The novel is pretty depressing and kind of innapropriate..would it be geared more towards adults?

hm...what about Godspell?

[Elphaba984]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:30pm

ok... as much as everyone will probably be jumping all over me, but i think Boy From Oz should be made into a movie. with original cast of course. along with not neccesarily a movie but more on the lines of what PBS did with Les Mis back in the day and do a concert version of Taboo. even though it was short lived, i think it could be done concert version (so people like me, who haven't seen it but own the cd. can watch it)

[brandonm]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:04pm

WICKED :)

[kim1061]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:05pm

i agree wicked the novel would be great. i just finished it and i loved it

[CaMi MiAmI]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:11pm

Yes Wicked film based on the novel awesome! It would be liek the new Harry Potter!
Hair had and Jesus Christ Superstar had great musical movies as well as Gypsy and Little Shop of Horror's with the adorable Ellen Green!

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:13pm

I liked everyone in the Little Shop movie EXCEPT FOR Ellen Greene.

[brandonm]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:15pm

not a WICKED movie from the novel!
The musical is TEN TIMES better than the novel in my oppinion

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:16pm

I like both, but the novel's better.

[Eponinez.Rain]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:36pm

I personally could not make it all the way through the novel (though I did make a second attempt to finish it). The whole first section is just so weird. I enjoyed the section when they were at Shiz, that was cool too. But then after that it got way weird again. And then I stopped. LOL. I just don't understand what's so great about it. I just don't *get* it. I mean, yeah the idea's good, but... it just didn't do anything for me. I haven't actually seen the musical yet, but I've read a spoiler-filled plot summary, and I personally thought it was much better. That's just me... maybe they could adapt the novel for a movie in a way that would appeal more to me? I really do want Wicked to get on screen in some form or another before Bush is out of office, lol...

[Matt_G]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:39pm

When a film is made of WICKED, it will be of the musical. Trust me on this one.

[Justice]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:41pm

City of Angels would be a GREAT movie musical, considering the concept of the plot - turning a book into a movie.

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:47pm

My Fair Lady wrote:

"I liked everyone in the Little Shop movie EXCEPT FOR Ellen Greene."


how could someone like LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and NOT LIKE ELLEN GREENE?!!!

she originated the role of Audrey on stage and we're all lucky that performance is forever preserved on celluloid for future generations to enjoy...

Updated On: 12/24/04 at 03:47 PM

[Derek]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:47pm

Godspell was already a movie...but if u mean remake it then yeah, that'd be cool. I cry whenever I watch that movie. I just did the show and played Judas, I cried during every finale lol

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:51pm

I'm sorry...I have a feeling Ellen Greene is coming to kill me in my sleep. I run away when she comes on the screen.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:53pm

Ellen Greene is one of the only people who could ever pull off the role of Audrey, as painfully evidenced by Kerry Butler.

[bjivie2]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:53pm

City of Angels WOULD make a great movie musical.

Going back to Guys & Dolls, I would be interested to see what come of it. But did we know that the people behind the remake want to update it to current day and there's been talk of Vin Diesel starring as Nathan Detroit?

I actually think The Last Five Years would transfer well to film too.

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 4:35pm

OOh! Big fat ditto on The Last Five Years.

Matt, is Sweeny really in the works? I would love this one too!

Into the Woods
Les Miz!!!!!!

Yes, Millie IS a movie (not a very good one in my opinion), the new musical is so incredibly different with so much more new music, it would hardly even be a remake...I think it would make a GREAT movie.
of course...imo, we should make movies of ALL musicals!!

ok, this probably sounds crazy and no one will agree with me, but I think it would be really cool if they made a live action film of The Lion King (uh...and Cats, for that matter) using people and the Bway costumes and everything, but using outdoor sets, I guess...I don't know, almost like a tribal African ceremony. Don't hate me!

Oh, and The Wiz....
get it right this time....gosh! the movie makes me mad because they changed every song just a little bit to make it suck...every time Diana Ross sings, she sounds like she is about to cry, and they make upbeat songs slow and depressing, and they made Slide Some Oil sound like a honky tonk country song...ggrrr!!!!!!

[Derek]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 4:36pm

I loved Kerry Butler as Audrey lol

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 4:52pm

Evita wasn't first - The Wiz was before that -

I love Les Mis - favorite show and always wanted a movie of it. Lately, I am afraid they would mess it up.

I already have a vision of the movie should look - perhaps I'll have to get myself to direct it...

[CaMi MiAmI]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 4:53pm

There's an awesome Godspell movie already

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 4:59pm

Actually, Wicked the musical came out of a screenplay written based on the book...

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 5:00pm

okay, if you are going back as far as the wiz and evita, then this isn't a movie musical 'comeback'. Those were random, and were not followed by more movie musicals. Now that we have several, it is a comeback.

[gherbert]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 5:29pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie was origianlly an answer to making a movie of The Boy Friend for Julie Andrews without doing The Boy Friend.

Ron Hunter saw The Boy Friend in London and in the United States with Julie Andrews and was charmed by the silly sendup of the musicals of the 1920's. Yet he was unable to secure the rights to the show for film, so he created his own piece.

The difference between the stage and film versions is that the film is a spoof of the 1920s. We never get emotional for our main character because she is a silly flapper who shenanigans leave us with little more than laughs. And when that falpper is as divine a creature as Julie Andrews it is great fun. That is all that the film aims to do: fun.

For the show it is no longer a sendup of the 20's, we are supposed to care about our mawin character and suffer with her as we laugh at her shenanigans and root for her to do the right thing while on top of all that looking at the silly characters and laughing and it just wasn't a good mix. Trying to have your cake and eat it too.

So a new movie that would add that sentimentality that in my opinion sort of ruined the silly 1920's feel of the story is not a good idea to me.

I also am livid at the possibility of the punk-rock Bye Bye Birdie movie that was proposed. Ugh! Where's the exit!

But a movie version of Dreamgirls could be delightful.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 12/24/04 at 5:31pm

I ABHOR Guys and Dolls as well. Perfectly written or not, Nathan Lane killed it for me and the score haunts me in my sleep.

I would love to see an amazing movie made of INTO THE WOODS. It would be so amazing to actually see it in a real, creepy forest and castle, etc. I think it would be fantastic, as long as they keep it "creepy," and don't try to make it for children, who don't really understand it anyway. I would love for Sam Mendes to direct it.