The Fun Home movie

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 2:59pm

The Times article about the impact of the Best Musical win says there has been interest expressed in a film version, which will help the show stand the test of time.  The producers said they want to do what's best for the material.

I will tell you exactly what this is and this is not an opinion, this IS how to do it:

Get the people who brought the graphic novel "Persepolis" to the screen and make Fun Home an animated film and use the Broadway cast and do it right.

That's all.

Case closed.

Updated On: 6/9/15 at 02:59 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:02pm

100% agreed.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:09pm

Let's make this happen Hollywood Broadway!!!

 

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:13pm

While I do feel a live action version could also be excellent...this idea is brilliant! 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:19pm

This way, if Sydney suddenly grows three feet taller (anybody who's drooled over her bearilicious father in the lobby knows this is a distinct possibility) she can still voice the part.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:35pm

I love the animation idea, but I would love to see the older Alison be live action and mingle among cartoons.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:45pm

Bedknobs & 'Dykes' Strips!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:47pm

^
I would actually hate that.  A full-length feature that looks like a Mary Poppins sequence?  Plus, the one live-action character would be too distracting against all the animation, especially if they mostly served as an observer.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:53pm

I wouldn't do it like Mary Poppins where they are onscreen together, but rather show her drawing the cartoons in live action and then show her memories as animation.

The only moment when live action and animation would mix would be in Telephone Wire.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:58pm

Let's storyboard this and get this project rolling.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:05pm

The art of animation is not so monolithic that Mary Poppins is the only comparable precedent. 

Given Alison's background as a cartoonish, or even given FUN HOME's own animated take on Alison's postscript to her graphic novel, this idea has real promise.

Since PERSEPOLIS was adapted and co-directed by the author (Marjane Satrapi) herself, it may not be likely for her exactly to be hired to adapt FUN HOME, but certainly there is precedent for compellingly rich, complex animation for an adult audience. Other films such as WALTZ WITH BASHIR, the output of the legendary Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki or Sylvain Chomet (TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE, THE ILLUSIONIST) would illustrate that there is certainly artistry up to the task of animating Bechdel's world.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:07pm

I love ALL of those except I never saw Waltz...

[jnb9872]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:09pm

^^

Fun Oscars trivia: partly due to the complicated process for nominating, but still

WALTZ WITH BASHIR is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Film

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:19pm

Have we seen MONTAGE OF HECK on HBO? Soon as I saw that, I thought: this is what a FUN HOME movie would be like.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:22pm

I wouldn't do it like Mary Poppins where they are onscreen together, but rather show her drawing the cartoons in live action and then show her memories as animation.

Ah...now THAT I could get on board with.

The art of animation is not so monolithic that Mary Poppins is the only comparable precedent.

Oh, I know.  I'm just not a fan of mixing live-action with 2-D animation except as a novelty for brief sequences.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:23pm

Side bar: What about beefcake and claymation monsters?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:27pm

We would need a Beefcake Oversight Committee to approve the selections, of which I will volunteer my assistance.  No twinks allowed.

Claymation monsters are a given.  I bet we could get our hands on the original Medusa from Clash of the Titans.

[ggersten]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:28pm

"I wouldn't do it like Mary Poppins where they are onscreen together, but rather show her drawing the cartoons in live action and then show her memories as animation.
The only moment when live action and animation would mix would be in Telephone Wire."

Sounds a bit like how they incorporated animation in Caroline in the City and My World and Welcome To It.  In a much simpler time.  

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:48pm

Does anybody else but me get the latter reference?  And is your real name lgerritson?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:53pm

"My World . . ." is the first thing I thought of when mixing live action and animation was mentioned.

Updated On: 6/9/15 at 04:53 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:58pm

Such warm memories of that show.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 5:00pm

To be honest, I barely remember it in any detail, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind.

That was the one where the little girl had the massive braces contraption, yes?

Updated On: 6/9/15 at 05:00 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 5:03pm

Yes, and that little girl became Bess on the Mary Tyler Moore show.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 5:07pm

Oh, riiiiiiight!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/9/15 at 5:11pm