If you told me that Daniel-Day Lewis would follow up There Will Be Blood with this musical rom-com type of thing, I probably would have laughed hysterically.Â
So now I don’t know what to make of it, because DDL never makes bad movies.
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Tags: Daniel Day-Lewis, musicals, Nine, Rob Marshall |
Chalk this one up to we could have seen this coming from a mile away. Seems George Lucas is not content milking the money cow known as Star Wars. How many cliches can we toss into one paragraph? The force is with us and we may never know.
George Lucas has signed off on Star Wars: A Musical Journey, a two-hour live musical event featuring a Stormtrooper kick line and singing Wookiees John Williams’ Oscar-winning score.
Premiering next year in London’s O2 arena, the production will be performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in synch with movie clips from the six live-action films. The show will play in chronological order, from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi.
The production will blast off April 10 in the U.K. and then embark on a European tour, complete with an exhibition of rare Star Wars collectibles, including never-before-seen models, props, costumes and production artwork. No word when it will visit America.
The Star Wars: A Musical Journey will condense the six films into a snappy two-hour production. Hopefully, they gloss over the first three movies and skip right to parts IV, V, and VI.
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Tags: George Lucas, musicals, Star Wars, theater |
John “The Cougar” Mellencamp and horror icon Stephen King have teamed up to produce the musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, which is set to open in Atlanta circa April 2009.
According to Billboard:
Mellencamp wrote the score, while King wrote the script. Mellencamp previously said the play, which is set in Lake Belle Reve, Miss., in 1957, is about “two brothers; they’re 19 years old or 20, maybe 18 or 21, who are very competitive and dislike each other immensely. The father takes them to the family vacation place, a cabin that the boys hadn’t been to since they were kids.”
“What has happened is that the father had two older brothers who hated each other and killed each other in that cabin,” he continued. “There’s a confederacy of ghosts who also live in this house. The older [dead] brothers are there, and they speak to the audience, and they sing to the audience.
“Ghost Brothers” will be directed by Peter Askin (”Hedwig and the Angry Inch”), who hopes to prep the production for an eventual Broadway run.
Mellencamp also told Billboard that King is “the sweetest guy you could ever meet; there’s nothing weird about him or demonic or anything like that.”
Always gives me faith when the plot is that convoluted. There are some ghosts and they’re dead in a cabin somewhere and then they sing. You know cause that’s scary.
Anyway, do you suppose it’s as scary as Oooooooouuuuuuurrrrrrrr Country?
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Tags: John Mellencamp, musicals, Stephen King |
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