THE HANGOVER 4---Ed Helms commented on the chances of a fourth movie in the franchise, “I’d say the chances of a fourth movie are between zero and zero.”
I love WEST SIDE STORY as it currently exists but more than happy to give Mr Spielberg the benefit of the doubt. He's never done a musical and could bring something really special to this one.
A dramatic film of West Side Story would probably work but NO Leonard Bernstein's work is to be left alone! Chris Pratt taking over as Indy or a rebooting?!?
I love WEST SIDE STORY as it currently exists but more than happy to give Mr Spielberg the benefit of the doubt. He's never done a musical and could bring something really special to this one.
I thought the opening to IJATTOD was a musical in one scene. It was a truly bold move to start an Indiana Jones movie like that and was obviously deliberately derivative, but how do you tackle the genre today? I couldn't stomach La La Land the movie and I harbor a suspicion it was, in any case, a response to The Artist, another film I haven't yet seen. Maybe Mr Spielberg should consult with manderley about this before going any further?
But of all the Bernstein output, why go over the same ground when there's other turf as yet cinematically untouched? Maybe the reason is as simple as WSS is the least 'dangerous' project from the pile given the way dominoes fall these days?
Episode 1: The Thor Question , Episode 2: Jewel Case or Digipack?, Episode 3: The Maestro Intervenes, Epilog: The Studios Rub Their Hands Together One Way Or The Other.
CLUE---Ryan Reynolds is the star/producer of the remake of the 1985 comedy movie based on the board game. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (DEADPOOL) will write the script. The original movie starred Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren.
CLUE---Ryan Reynolds is the star/producer of the remake of the 1985 comedy movie based on the board game. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (DEADPOOL) will write the script. The original movie starred Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren.
What with all the scuttle about the proposed Mockingbird stage play it's got me wondering about WSS. We know it's a Romeo & Juliet rework but I fear this new version might be something weird like the Shakespeare/DiCaprio thing a few years ago. My fear includes what would be done to the Bernstein music. Oh and Sondheim went ballistic publicly over the changes to Gershwin's Porgy and these new things in the works have the same aroma. Or odor?
