Which movie musicals could Spielberg have done? — Page 3

"Sunset Blvd" - get the film made already! Glenn Close is nearly 75.

Ooh, yes, Sunset Boulevard before Glenn gets too old! I also like the idea of Pippin but that seems to weird as well as too bleak for him.

BwayLB said: "I would love a colorblind cast on the big screen too. As well as adapting Douglas Carter Beane’s script from the 2013 production. I didn’t expect to get a few good laughs out of it."

I know! Douglas Carter Beane's book was actually funny!

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "Guys. How is it possible you want ANOTHER Cinderella. We have as many Cinderella movies coming out as we do Marvel films now."

Well, I mean when it's been a good few years since the last Cinderella film. And to be honest I am a gigantic Cinderella fan. I also think Spielberg should have directed Phantom of the Opera, Les Mis, and Beauty and the Beast. Plus, maybe Spielberg would make the best Cinderella movie ever.

BwayLB said: "Call me in the next seven or eight years"

Wait, why? Do you want to direct Cinderella? I know I would want to direct it if I could. And had the skills lol.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "joevitus said: "I agree it probablyshouldhave a Black filmmaker (or if Spielberg were to direct it, the screenplay should be adapted by a Black writer)"

I do not in the least comprehend this argument."

Well, we've already had a film of RAGTIME made by a Jewish man and a Broadway musical of RAGTIME written by goyim. It's about time that a Black artist put their stamp on the material..."

Let me be clear that I think many Black directors could do great things with this material. It's the term "probably should have" for this particular work that I can't fathom.

For works by Black authors about Black experience--say The Color Purple (which, yeah, Spielberg did the original movie), Hadestown, any potential remake of The Wiz. List more works in this category and I'll continue to say yes. Black people should have the access and encouragement to tell their own stories.

But Ragtime isn't a work either created by Black artists or focusing primarily on Black experience, and most of the immigrants in the story aren't People of Color (Tateh and the Little Girl, Emma Goldman, Houdini are all Russian Jews). It's a work about all Americans. You'd have to have a pretty antagonistic view of white people to think a white director (who stands a very good chance of being a Jewish director, like Spielberg) couldn't do the material justice.

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darquegk said: "Hadestown isn’t a Black work about the Black experience. It’s by a white ex-Quaker, and almost every role in the show is ethnically neutral but instructed to maintain an atmosphere of diversity and inclusion."

Obviously, none of us have literally gone to Hell to rescue our lovers (none of us has ridden a cyclone to Oz, either, but I think it's fair to say The Wiz is about the Black experience), but I had thought it was written by Black artists, expressing their vision and contained a predominantly Black cast. Obviously I was wrong.

Okay, then it isn't best for it to be directed by a Black person, either. Anyone with of any race with talent is equally appropriate.

Steven Spielberg has recently revealed that he won't be directing any more musicals following West Side Story. Although he is interested in producing them.
https://variety.com/2022/awards/news/steven-spielberg-pga-awards-2022-breakfast-1235209794/

Spielberg said he won't direct another musical.

https://variety.com/2022/awards/news/steven-spielberg-pga-awards-2022-breakfast-1235209794/

"During the conversation, the two-time Oscar-winning director — for “Schindler’s List” (1993) and “Saving Private Ryan” (1998) — shared with the audience that he’ll never direct another musical in his career, although he’ll be involved as a producer on some. He’s currently co-producing the musical adaptation of “The Color Purple” with Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks in the lead roles."

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