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It's adapted from the celebrated Stephen Sondheim musical (one of my favorites), but you can't really tell it's a musical based on the trailer...
He's only playing the Wolf, who's out of the story early. Basically a quirky-indulgent cameo.Mike Frezon said:Looks like it has great potential. The presence of Depp worries me, though.
Yeah, it's just that everything he seems to do now is a variant on Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp is quickly becoming a Johnny One-Note.Cameron Yee said:I'm not so worried about Depp since the film's not directed by Tim Burton, who seems to give him free rein.
Enchanted started out as Eisner kissing up to the princess-bashing section of what was then Shrek 2 mania, but it didn't stay that way--Cameron Yee said:I thought Enchanted was not subversive or cynical enough, but merely good-natured ribbing about fairy tales vs. reality.
I won't make the same mistake with this one, especially when I heard they wouldn't be making the wolf as lascivious as he is in the stage version.
Considering that Disney is run by a bunch of people with zero respect for the company's roots, it doesn't surprise me at all. I mean we're talking about a group of people who completely abandoned an 86 year history of producing handdrawn 2D animation, not because "Princess and The Frog" lost money but due to it not making enough to satisfy the money snuffling pigs in Disney management.John Kilduff said:I love Disney's animated movies, but I'm puzzled as to why they're producing the film version of a musical that subverts the tropes of Disney's versions of these fairy tales. I probably shouldn't be, since Disney did "Enchanted" in 2007, which was a cynical swipe at the first seven decades of Disney movies or what I once described as Disney's version of "Shrek". Although I shouldn't be surprised, I still am. I hope it will be good, but I figured this would be more of a DreamWorks movie than a Disney movie.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff...
Then again, Touchstone Pictures, a division of Disney, now only exists to distribute DreamWorks titles, so it would probably have a Disney pedigree no matter what.
If the Mysterious Man is gone, that means "No More" will sadly lose some of its impact... provided it hasn't been cut as well.Ejanss said:Then, um....don't go.
One rumor floating around IMDb is that the Narrator/Mysterious Man has been written out of the story (so that the Baker can narrate), along with some of the recitative-songs and the bridge between the Act 1 finale and the Act 2 opening.
Just how they'll handleor the Mysterious Man's identity (which, thematically speaking, is something serious), remains to be seen.who gets thrown to the Giant's wife as "scapegoat"
An article in The New Yorker misreporting my "Master Class" conversation about censorship in our schools with seventeen teachers from the Academy for Teachers a couple of weeks ago has created some false impressions about my collaboration with the Disney Studio on the film version of Into the Woods. The fact is that James (Lapine, who wrote both the show and the movie) and I worked out every change from stage to screen with the producers and withRob Marshall, the director. Despite what the New Yorker article may convey, the collaboration was genuinely collaborative and always productive.
When the conversation with the teachers occurred, I had not yet seen a full rough cut of the movie. Coincidentally, I saw it immediately after leaving the meeting and, having now seen it a couple of times, I can happily report that it is not only a faithful adaptation of the show, it is a first-rate movie.
And for those who care, as the teachers did, the Prince's dalliance is still in the movie, and so is "Any Moment."
Disney followed the same strategy for the early marketing of Frozen apparently afraid that no males would show up, and that worked out OK.GlennF said:I do find it interesting the way they choose to show nothing musical from the film in the trailer. It's like they are trying to "trick" people into getting there and then "Ah ha. It's a musical". It's like when you see promos for foreign films and they try to avoid showing characters speaking so you won't find out it is subtitled. I guess they feel this makes a difference.