Zadan and Meron Get Rights To PETER PAN; Fastracked For ABC — Page 2

Is Mary Martin's Peter Pan available on DVD?

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The Mary Martin DVD is out of print, lake.

that is depressing... I guess I will have to check EBay, or hope that it will be re-released. I do have the VHS though, I just want a DVD

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I'm glad a musical movie for TV is getting greenlit, but did it have to be PETER PAN? Haven't we filmed that one enough? Can't we do something that could use a decent TV/Film version?

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CINDERELLA was fine ??

Brandi.

that's all I have to say. and if you still think it was fine? we'll agree to disagree.

"Zadan said that the new Peter Pan will feature some contemporary elements, but will also honor the intentions of the creators. "It's not unlike what we've done with Hairspray...We're not taking the shows verbatim and putting them on film. We're reinventing them while honoring the basic material."

Sounds like they could use a boy if they want. I think today's audiences are going to accept a boy easier than a girl playing a boy.

What are your friends doing on the film, Cpt?

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I agree with whomever said this seems unnecessary. How can the Martin and Rigby versions be improved upon? Each was unique and wonderful in their own way. Although, since I never saw Martin live (owing to the fact that I was not born yet), I think Rigby will always be my favorite.

Chris Brown or David Archuleta as Peter. The end.

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"They should scratch the idea of Peter Pan, and finally do something they planned to a few years ago, Annie Get Your Gun with Reba McEntire, and she is all Gung Ho for it too."

That might be fun. I'd love to see Mame, or something else that could use a good screen adaptation.

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ANNIE was fantastic. A great improvement on the original film.
CINDERELLA was indeed very entertaining and even if Brandy was kinda meh, we did get fantastic performances from Whoopie Goldberg, Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber, Jason Alexander, and Veanne Cox.
I look forward to see what stars they have been talking to.

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CINDERELLA was a goregeous, all-star cast, and well done musical-movie, as was ANNIE. Hopefully, PETER PAN is not the last one.

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Mame was in the works with Julie Andrews, around the same time Herman was writing his autobiography, and most likely would have happened had it not been for her vocal issues. It then had a whole slew of compeltely inappropriate women attached to it. I wish they'd make it, as it is a film that could benefit from a remake. I also wish they'd remake My Fair Lady, and bring back something of the original's greatness, which was completely lacking under Cukor's rotten direction (inappropriately awarded Academy Awards notwithstanding).

I disliked a lot of things about Brandy's Cinderella (Goldberg, Houston and Alexander,among them), but Brandy wasn't one of them.

The TV version of Bye Bye Birdie was atrocious (excepting Williams, who was great), and The Music Man was beyond lousy. Annie was superior to its theatrical film version, in every way.

I do think it would be a mistake to cast a girl as Peter Pan, in a film. Particularly for Disney, who's definitive film version (albiet animated) is clearly a boy.