Thumbing through this week's Entertainment Weekly, I came across an article about the wave of movie musicals coming, thanks to the success of Chicago a couple of years ago. Should be interesting to see how many of these actually succeed (and how many of those conform to my own personal theory on why contemporary movie musicals do and, more often, don't succeed).
No big surprise to hear that The Producers is being made into a movie (a movie, based on a musical, based on a movie—does it get more incestuous than that?). And I'd already heard about Phantom of the Opera coming out later this year.
But the "big" news, the one that leaves me falling on the floor laughing is Rent, apparently due out sometime this year, directed by the inimitable Chris Columbus. That's right, the uber-hack, master of such subtle emotional fare as Bicentennial Man & Stepmom is going to tackle Rent—a modern day retelling of La Boheme with AIDS subbing in for tuberculosis as the disease du jour.
WOW, is that movie going to suck! I can hardly wait.
No big surprise to hear that The Producers is being made into a movie (a movie, based on a musical, based on a movie—does it get more incestuous than that?). And I'd already heard about Phantom of the Opera coming out later this year.
But the "big" news, the one that leaves me falling on the floor laughing is Rent, apparently due out sometime this year, directed by the inimitable Chris Columbus. That's right, the uber-hack, master of such subtle emotional fare as Bicentennial Man & Stepmom is going to tackle Rent—a modern day retelling of La Boheme with AIDS subbing in for tuberculosis as the disease du jour.
WOW, is that movie going to suck! I can hardly wait.
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That has to be one of the signs of the Apocalypse.
Of course, I was never too thrilled to hear that Schumacher was doing Phantom...but everything I've seen/heard so far is quite promising.
Q