new RENT movie article

[luvtheEmcee]

new RENT movie article#0

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:20pm

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=503728&pn=3



Aside from the 'goofy' plot addiction, things appear to be falling into place.

Discuss....

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[TGIF]

re: new RENT movie article#1

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:26pm

Hmmm, should that stuff in the beginning been mentioned?

I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!

[timote316]

re: new RENT movie article#2

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:31pm

Its still wierd to think that the film is only about a year away...

[BroadwayDiva]

re: new RENT movie article#3

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:33pm

Roger drives a Mustang? Okay...wow...

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[luvtheEmcee]

re: new RENT movie article#4

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:33pm

TGIF, tell what car YOU pictured.

And yeah. I don't believe it's actually happening. AT ALL. Whenever I hear about it, I have to slap myself and remember that it's actually happening... with the OBC, nonetheless.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 12/10/04 at 10:33 PM

[Allie]

re: new RENT movie article#5

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:35pm

Can you buy a Mustang for the price of a guitar...?

[BroadwayDiva]

re: new RENT movie article#6

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:36pm

Well, unless you have a REALLY expensive guitar and a really crappy Mustang, then nope.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[Chloe]

re: new RENT movie article#7

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:38pm

Interesting... the most fun thing to me, though, is that I'm sure the script has changed and is still changing. Who knows how it will end up, and I'm not saying that in a negative way. I might as well post the article I came across today as well. Note the paragraph at the end:

Potter producer moves on to Rent
LOUIS B. HOBSON, CALGARY SUN

HOLLYWOOD -- Chris Columbus has left the magical world of Harry Potter for the mean streets of New York. Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and produced this year's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, will write and direct the film version of the Broadway musical Rent.

Rent, which won a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, looks at a group of artists and junkies living in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

"I think people need to see a movie about tolerance and acceptance whose message is that we must live life to the fullest," says Columbus, who wrote the holiday movie Christmas with the Kranks.

Though pop stars like Justin Timberlake and Beyonce Knowles expressed interest in starring in Rent, Columbus chose to cast several of the stars of the original 1996 Broadway production.

Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will reprise their roles of the rock musician and struggling filmmaker while Wilson Jermaine Wilson will once again play the drag queen angel, the role that won him a Tony Award.

Taye Diggs the star of TV's Kevin Hill was cast as Angela Bassett's young holiday lover in How Stella Got Her Groove Back when director Kevin Rodney Sullivan saw him in Rent.

He and Alexander's Rosario Dawson are the two biggest names cast so far in Rent.

"We'll film some exteriors in New York after Christmas and then film all the interiors in a studio in San Francisco in March," says Columbus, who promises Rent will be ready for next December.

[TGIF]

re: new RENT movie article#8

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:38pm

*mumbles* station wagon

I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!

[TGIF]

re: new RENT movie article#9

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:38pm

also - very long story behind that.

I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!

[luvtheEmcee]

re: new RENT movie article#10

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:39pm

*giggles at TGIF*

Thanks, Chloe!

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[BEKA531]

re: new RENT movie article#11

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:40pm

ooh, thanks emcee. going to read that now...

[FosseBoi]

re: new RENT movie article#12

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:41pm

I'm feeling better about this now, THANK GOD!

"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line

[MyNameInLights]

re: new RENT movie article#13

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:45pm

Still nervous... but not so much anymore.

"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

[Addicted2Seaweed]

re: new RENT movie article#14

Posted: 12/10/04 at 10:56pm

I really want this to be good... I've already made my non-musical loving friends promise to come see it, and I will be so embarassed if it's not good. Plus I'm afraid if it sucks, then this whole musical movie trend will die out.

What is it about Lucy?? I know she's a bitch, and yet I want to be her...

[insomniak]

re: new RENT movie article#15

Posted: 12/10/04 at 11:00pm

Well, something in there must have changed his tune. And I think I know who leaked the screenplay...

[Mimi Imfurst]

re: new RENT movie article#16

Posted: 12/10/04 at 11:21pm

The movie is going to be AMAZING :) I'm really looking forward to that.

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[Mimi Imfurst]

re: new RENT movie article#17

Posted: 12/10/04 at 11:28pm

If Roger's guitar was a Gibson 1932 it would be worth 15,000.00 enought to buy a car.

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[OneBlazeOfGlory]

re: new RENT movie article#18

Posted: 12/11/04 at 12:06am

'He and Alexander's Rosario Dawson are the two biggest names cast so far in Rent.'

Hm. Not sure which way to take that... What are they expecting bigger? Or are Anthony and Adam not good enough or something?

Anyways... thanks for sharing the articles

Here in this cold white room tied up to these machines, it's hard to imagine life as it used to be. Laughing, screaming, tumbling queen... Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen. Whirling, swirling, never blue... How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do... RIP Jason

[luvtheEmcee]

re: new RENT movie article#19

Posted: 12/11/04 at 12:28am

Glory, outside of musical theatre, hardly anyone knows Adam. People are slightly more familiar with Anthony because of his film work, but Taye's a way bigger name.

Oh, and I think Roger's guitar is a Fender.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[Jwei123]

re: new RENT movie article#20

Posted: 12/11/04 at 12:30am

I am SO excited for this movie. I don't even know how to express it! :)

awkward.

"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912

[spiderdj82]

re: new RENT movie article#21

Posted: 12/11/04 at 12:39am

As am I. God, this year Phantom......next year RENT. There is a God.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[Jwei123]

re: new RENT movie article#22

Posted: 12/11/04 at 12:45am

spider, i couldn't agree more!

awkward.

"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912

[Greekmusicalfan]

re: new RENT movie article#23

Posted: 12/11/04 at 6:35am

Can't wait for the RENT movie. And spider add to those two, The Producers in 2005 and Hairspray in 2006, which are in pre-production !!!!!

[Jimbo2]

re: new RENT movie article#24

Posted: 12/11/04 at 10:17am

Well, when I first heard it was being filmed on the West Coast I was a bit nervous, but this sounds like it could be something pretty good. I'm so glad they are using the OBC (wishing Daphne and Fredi were in it as well).

"If we don't wake up and shake the nation, we'll eat the dust of the world, wondering why...why?"