I'd love to see Starmites in 3-D. In fact, 3-D IMAX. It would work. I'd also be interested to see how Blood Brothers would translate to film, as well as Merrily We Roll Along. A movie of Wicked could go in so many different directions. I keep imaging a really cheesy filmic adaptation of 'Defying Gravity' with Elphaba rising through the ceiling, wood fragments flying everywhere and then a blue screen shot of Elphaba flying over Oz much like this:
While singing "So if you care to find me..." while cutting to high angle reverse shots of the Ozians pointing at the sky singing the "look at her she's wicked!" part, ending with a superimposition of the citizens and Elphaba (kinda like the ending of SUmmer Nights in Grease). If they did make a Wicked movie it could be intersting if done as a carbon-copy of the 1939 Wizard of Oz. In the sense that the props, costumes and set would be a mirror image of the 1939 movie, maybe even incorperating clips from the movie in order to really portray the "looking at it another way" concept. It would be cool, from my perspective, to see Wicked and Wizard of Oz tied together like this. I mean it could easily destroy the musical but still, it would be intersting.
Canadians are not afraid of the dark! Ok...we don't love it, but who does?
Updated On: 1/20/07 at 12:14 AM