URINETOWN: The movie musical

[EponineThenardier]

URINETOWN: The movie musical#1

Posted: 11/22/07 at 7:47pm

I'm sure this has come up before...this to me would make a perfect movie musical. What would be your dream cast?

so far
Bobby: Jake Gyllenhaal
Hope: Amy Adams
Penny: Meryl Streep
Cladwell: Jim Broadbent

Updated On: 11/22/07 at 07:47 PM

[Boq101]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#2

Posted: 11/22/07 at 8:23pm

You're being ridiculous, anyone who's seen the show can easily see that the show makes fun of itself as a show the entire time, there's no fourth wall.

studios would panick, i'd be either a totally different type of storytelling or a bad direct translation.

[Smaxie]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#2

Posted: 11/22/07 at 9:14pm

Not so far fetched, Boq. At one point, Variety reported that Killer Films, the company that produced the film version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, was partnering with the Araca Group (one of Urinetown's Broadway producers) and authors Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis to develop Urinetown for the big screen. While the show had bigger ideas on its mind than just merely satirizing Broadway musicals, but was pigeonholed as such by the simpleminded, it could just as easily be adapted to satirize the conventions of classic movie musicals.

And as far as Jake Gyllenhaal, he was a huge fan of the Broadway show and saw it multiple times. He'd be a great choice for Bobby Strong. The rest of Eponine's casting choices are rather inspired as well... Jim Broadbent would be a brilliant Cladwell.


Urinetown in Killer's' pipeline for the bigscreen - Variety

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Updated On: 11/22/07 at 09:14 PM

[CapnHook]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#3

Posted: 11/22/07 at 9:43pm

http://www.moviemusicals.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=96

They're not moving forward. Araca told me back in 2005 that a film was still intended and would be moving forward in the end of that year. Obviously, it didn't.

I wonder if the various Urinetown lawsuits had anything to do with a film version moving forward. No reasons I could think of, but you never know...

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[millie_dillmount]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#4

Posted: 11/22/07 at 9:49pm

What Urinetown lawsuits?

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[CapnHook]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#5

Posted: 11/22/07 at 10:02pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/103580.html

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/103961.html

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[Amneris]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#6

Posted: 11/22/07 at 10:09pm

this would definately not work as a film...unless you shot it in the waiting for guffman sense of a community theater putting it on :)

[EponineThenardier]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#7

Posted: 11/22/07 at 10:13pm

I said "TO ME" this would make a great movie musical...I don't give two figs what studios think or if it would do well. This is my own wishful thinking.

It's a fun thread for the sake of it.

[CapnHook]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#8

Posted: 11/22/07 at 10:22pm

Now that we know Paris Hilton can do musicals, let's cast her as Little Sally. ::rolls eyes::

Honestly though...Bette Midler as Miss Pennywise.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[Amneris]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#9

Posted: 11/22/07 at 10:22pm

ok well, if it's fun to you... I would Say Steve Carell as officer Lockstock , Scarlet Johansson as Little Becky Two Shoes, Catherine Zeta Jones as Pennywise

[outovfashion07]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#10

Posted: 11/23/07 at 2:07am

I would LOVE love love to see Streep as Penny. It would be brilliant.

[LadyRosecoe]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#11

Posted: 11/23/07 at 2:56am

I agree, Midler sounds like such an incredibly comical fit for Penny.

[Smaxie]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#12

Posted: 11/23/07 at 8:00am

>They're not moving forward. Araca told me back in 2005 that a film was still intended and would be moving forward in the end of that year. Obviously, it didn't.<

Which is why I wrote "at one time". But who knows. If Dreamgirls and Chicago and Sweeney Todd could tale 25 years plus to make it to film, maybe Urinetown will get there someday.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[Vespertine1228]

re: URINETOWN: The movie musical#13

Posted: 11/23/07 at 9:58am

It might work if the show were adapted to make fun of movie musicals and not just regular in the theatre musicals. A huge part of the fun of Urinetown is watching it make fun of the form it itself is using, and you couldn't do the Les Miz or the Fiddler parodies onscreen to the same effect.

Plus the ending would be enough to make any studio person nervous.