DonRoeber

Upcoming Musicals?

After the huge success of Moulin Rouge! and then Chicago, I was a bit surprised to not see any big musicals in 2003. Are there any in production for release in 2004? Or are studios afraid that they won't be able to match the success of the previous two?

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Brook K

There's the perennial talk of a film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. I think a Rent film may be in the works. After Chicago's success there was buzz about a new version of Guys And Dolls.

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Jason Seaver

I don't know as Moulin Rouge could be called a "huge success". It wasn't a flop, but I think it was more a modest hit than something big.

There's also an adaptation of the Producers musical in the works.

Still, I think producers also note that for every Chicago there's a The Fantasticks; it's a genre without a whole lot of room between "outstanding" and "utter disaster".

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Sean Laughter

The talk about Phantom of the Opera is more than talk as it's started production already I think, if it's not finished with production. There was a photo released of Christine and the Phantom not too long ago.

[EDIT] Here's the photo (if I'm able to link from AICN)



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Edwin Pereyra

Musicals set to open this year:

De-Lovely (previously known as or AKA "Just One Of Those Things")
Phantom Of The Opera
Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical

As last reported Miramax has moved up the production of Damn Yankees ahead of Guys and Dolls. Miramax had also acquired the rights to Pippin.

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Colton

Will the remake of Willy Wonka be a musical?

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Edwin Pereyra

DreamWorks also has Moxie in script development.

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Sean Laughter

Great!!! I love "Pippin" to death - as a show on paper anyway. I hope it's done really well. I've been waiting for a broadway revival of this show for a while actually. I'm not too terribly fond of the Fosse production, but that's mainly from a design standpoint (the costumes, ugh, hated them, even given the decade it was produced).

PatrickL

Dreamworks was in hot pursuit of the film rights to the Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd over the Summer. (Tim Burton had been aching to direct this when Columbia had the rights; I'm assuming he's now out of the picture) Spielberg has said he wants to do a musical but I don't know if he intends to direct this one.

About a year ago, Killer Films announced its intention to produce a film version of Urinetown: The Musical but I haven't heard a thing since.



The only thing I liked about that one was what Bob Fosse did with it - now *there's* a case of hiding a multitude of flaws with razzle-dazzle showmanship. Just my opinion, of course.