Hi everyone, hope you enjoy the video! There were quite a few other unproduced movie musical adaptations that we couldn't quite fit into this video, but please let us know if you'd like us to have a look at those too!
Jim Henson & Into the Woods would have been absolutely incredible. Would have made for a better Cher swan song than Burlesque. Conflicted on Follies though, sounds like it had the potential to either be emotionally powerful due to its old-school cast, or depressingly cynical for the same reason...
I’d like to see a Cabaret movie that’s closer to the stage production, preferably the Sam Mendes version. Somewhere between the Fantasticks and Chicago film treatments is a good idea for a Pippin movie. Disney’s Aida deserves at least a televised production (why do they have to be live btw? The spontaneity of live theater is lost on a tv screen or second viewing for me). If they ever remake Little Shop, Jenifer Lewis for Audrey II. Janelle Monae for Leading Player or Persephone in a Hadestown movie. This is no longer a response to your video lol
I've never seen any Broadway musicals, but I'm familiar with most of them. It seems like if Cats were animated, it would've been aimed at a more mature audience, instead of a more general one, as it contained complex themes that children wouldn't have been able to understand. I don't think Little Shop of Horrors really needed an upgrade, especially since the Jim Henson movie was a staple of my childhood. I don't think my sister knows it, though. Follies I've never heard of. I've seen the Into the Woods movie, and now I'm starting to wish I'd seen the original production, as the movie was quite dark. I'll bet the 90s version would've been good. I've seen Sunset Boulevard. It's too bad the musical was cancelled, especially since the movie was such a classic.
I’d heard about a Guys and Dolls movie starring Channing Tatum as Sky and JGL as Nathan and I was SO EXCITED ABOUT IT. And it never came to anything. I’m still salty
All this talk of potential casting for the Little Shop remake and not ONE of them considered Jake Gyllenhall as Seymour like they did in the concert production?!?! HONESTLY, PEOPLE. YOUR CELEBRITY CASTING IS RIGHT THERE.
Good video. I'm still pissed that that Speilberg Cats (with Tom Stoppard??) was never made as the art looked great. Then again Spielberg's Amblimation never really made a successful (artistically) movie and maybe it would have suffered too. I have two drafts of the 90s Into the Woods screenplay. They are bizarre to read as a fan of the work, and filled with cheezy sounding special effects and comedy. And yet... In some ways, taken on their own terms, I think maybe it would have made a more successful movie than the James Lapine screenplay we got did (where, since in most ways it's so faithful, the changes made are all the more confusing.) My pet project, one I've written a lot, when it comes to unproduced movie musicals is Sondheim's original musical Singing Out Loud, written with William Goldman for director Rob Reiner. He's published most (not all) of the lyrics in his lyric books and some songs have been recorded, but I've managed to get copies of 4 different drafts, dozens of Goldman's notes, and other pieces on it for a research project I'm doing, and I honestly think it still could, and should, get made. Aside from one unfinished song, it's all there (more complete than Sondheim's Here We Are is) and is filled with great ideas.
I like Balto. I think American Tail 2 and especially We're Back are... not good (even as a kid I wasn't a fan). But critically and commercially they were flops.@@NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan
That would/ should be a big NO to Glenn Close in the Sunset Blvd movie. Norma is only suppose to be 50 not in her 70’s! It betrays the source material, the time period and lyrics in the some of the songs.
Well done! I learned a lot. Thank you. Just a couple of things as far as your pronunciations of some names It's pronounced: Julia Lou-ee Dreyfus... not Lewis Kyle McLawk-lin... not McLack-lin And Brendan Frazer... not Frazher (you're adding an "i" in his last name, which is a common mistake)
Hi everyone, hope you enjoy the video! There were quite a few other unproduced movie musical adaptations that we couldn't quite fit into this video, but please let us know if you'd like us to have a look at those too!
I would love to see more about unproduced musical adaptations!
Yes please, this was such an interesting video!
An animated cats would've made more than a live action. I would still love to see it one day.
I would spend my savings on a ticket for an adaptation like that.
Can't help but feel it's pretty tragic that the animated Cats movie never really happened :(
And instead we got a live action movie with Taylor Swift.
Jim Henson & Into the Woods would have been absolutely incredible. Would have made for a better Cher swan song than Burlesque.
Conflicted on Follies though, sounds like it had the potential to either be emotionally powerful due to its old-school cast, or depressingly cynical for the same reason...
another great one was gonna be She Loves Me starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke!!!
I really would have loved to that version of Follies with all the old stars.
What's More Insane: The Production History of Cats OR The Final 2019 Film [IMPOSSIBLE]
jk it's the 2019 film
I’d like to see a Cabaret movie that’s closer to the stage production, preferably the Sam Mendes version. Somewhere between the Fantasticks and Chicago film treatments is a good idea for a Pippin movie. Disney’s Aida deserves at least a televised production (why do they have to be live btw? The spontaneity of live theater is lost on a tv screen or second viewing for me). If they ever remake Little Shop, Jenifer Lewis for Audrey II. Janelle Monae for Leading Player or Persephone in a Hadestown movie. This is no longer a response to your video lol
Thank god little shop fell through, now I can keep campaigning for a version with Andrew Garfield, Emmy Rossum and Christian Borle
I've never seen any Broadway musicals, but I'm familiar with most of them. It seems like if Cats were animated, it would've been aimed at a more mature audience, instead of a more general one, as it contained complex themes that children wouldn't have been able to understand. I don't think Little Shop of Horrors really needed an upgrade, especially since the Jim Henson movie was a staple of my childhood. I don't think my sister knows it, though. Follies I've never heard of. I've seen the Into the Woods movie, and now I'm starting to wish I'd seen the original production, as the movie was quite dark. I'll bet the 90s version would've been good. I've seen Sunset Boulevard. It's too bad the musical was cancelled, especially since the movie was such a classic.
what if patti comes back
she already got the pool ready
I’d heard about a Guys and Dolls movie starring Channing Tatum as Sky and JGL as Nathan and I was SO EXCITED ABOUT IT. And it never came to anything. I’m still salty
I want to say it, I actually think that Josh Gad and rebel Wilson would’ve been a really good casting for Seymour and Audrey
I hated the into the woods movie adaptation. I hate how all Disney musicals are super auto tuned and I robotic the voices are
All this talk of potential casting for the Little Shop remake and not ONE of them considered Jake Gyllenhall as Seymour like they did in the concert production?!?! HONESTLY, PEOPLE. YOUR CELEBRITY CASTING IS RIGHT THERE.
THE REBA MCENTIRE ANNIE GET YOUR GUN TV MUSICAL IS MY ROMAN EMPIRE
Good video. I'm still pissed that that Speilberg Cats (with Tom Stoppard??) was never made as the art looked great. Then again Spielberg's Amblimation never really made a successful (artistically) movie and maybe it would have suffered too.
I have two drafts of the 90s Into the Woods screenplay. They are bizarre to read as a fan of the work, and filled with cheezy sounding special effects and comedy. And yet... In some ways, taken on their own terms, I think maybe it would have made a more successful movie than the James Lapine screenplay we got did (where, since in most ways it's so faithful, the changes made are all the more confusing.)
My pet project, one I've written a lot, when it comes to unproduced movie musicals is Sondheim's original musical Singing Out Loud, written with William Goldman for director Rob Reiner. He's published most (not all) of the lyrics in his lyric books and some songs have been recorded, but I've managed to get copies of 4 different drafts, dozens of Goldman's notes, and other pieces on it for a research project I'm doing, and I honestly think it still could, and should, get made. Aside from one unfinished song, it's all there (more complete than Sondheim's Here We Are is) and is filled with great ideas.
"Amblimation never really made a successful (artistically) movie"
What's wrong with Amblimations movies? Most of them are good.
I like Balto. I think American Tail 2 and especially We're Back are... not good (even as a kid I wasn't a fan). But critically and commercially they were flops.@@NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan
@@EricMontreal22 Oh ok at least you like Balto.
I’m sad the little shop of horror remake got cancelled :/
good stuff
Yes. More of the same, please.
That would/ should be a big NO to Glenn Close in the Sunset Blvd movie. Norma is only suppose to be 50 not in her 70’s! It betrays the source material, the time period and lyrics in the some of the songs.
Well done! I learned a lot. Thank you.
Just a couple of things as far as your pronunciations of some names
It's pronounced:
Julia Lou-ee Dreyfus... not Lewis
Kyle McLawk-lin... not McLack-lin
And
Brendan Frazer... not Frazher (you're adding an "i" in his last name, which is a common mistake)
spring awakening as well, sadly
Oh man, Chris Evans would make a great Orin
What is the issue with the Into The Woods film?
The same problem with every Rob Marshall movie besides *Chicago.*
glee
Oh, actually, Lady Gaga has every character!
II do not classify La La Land as a musical.
Why is that?
More of as film with added songs.@@cbismarck07