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Musical Mania Continues!! FAME Really Will Live Forever And Ever (And Ever)??
Merrick here...
MGM’s gearing up for a remake of FAME. It’s already being scripted, but they’re keeping details under wraps for now. Because, you know, we don’t have the gist story already.
Says Rick Sands, MGM COO:
"We'll update it, (but) we'll still keep some of the songs. The script is being written right now, but we are keeping it under wraps. There will be a strong musical component, though,"
…in this here article.
Oh! Maybe it’ll be set on a space station, where angsty alien teens learn to work together through the power of song and music - but a bigbad from the outside wants to blow up the facility to thwart universal harmony! This must surely be part of the updating their talking about, no?
Looks like musicals are back in fashion (if only just a bit), with the success of DREAMGIRLS, Tim Burton’s SWEENY TODD in production, HAIRSPRAY releasing this Summer, and CHICAGO Director Rob Marshall’s recently announced re-teaming with the Weinsteins for NINE. Does ACROSS THE UNIVERSE count as a musical? Probably so.
Now, if only someone would get that damn BATMAN musical going, all would be right with the world.
Really.
It would.
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wow, never got to do that.
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*Ignites saber*
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Schiese - I send stuff to you guys about Peter Jackson making a short WWII drama with the new RED HD camera (that was displayed at NAB this week!)and you post an article on an update of FAME. WTF? I ask you? double ewe tee eff? hmm?
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Ironically, the only thing I remember at all about the first movie is that chick being talked into taking her top off.
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The new Fame can't be an honest look at a performing arts school. We need a gangsta thug prodigy in need of direction, and we need an uptight upper east side ballerina for him to bump uglies with. We need a nerdy asian pianist who just wants to make trance and house and unleash his inner coolness. I also would like to put in a request for a tone deaf skinny jewish kid who's vocal limitations are a result of insecurity which will be overcome to reveal an amazing r&b talent. Can we have a spicy hispanic girl? Can we get some wacky gay guys flouncing and mincing and throwing barbed comments? And what musical would be complete without a BBBW to belt out the big songs. Bonus points if she hooks up with the skinny Jewish kid. This will suck so good! Oh! Oh! Don't forget the Sanjaya. He can replace the skinny kid if necessary. Director: Okay Sanjaya. Pretend not to be gay. Action!
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According to Clooney anyway.
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end the madness now.
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I can't take it. It's so stupid. These movies aren't even old. Someone take me to the hospital.
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Any update? George Will's rendition of "Blister in the Sun" is supposedly a show-stopper.
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He may have to put on a curly red wig, but I demand it be so.
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Word is they want to modernize it for today's audience. Nat Wolff is attached.
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Forget "Pompeii", Polanski should get his ass going on this one. And have Josh Groban as Alfred.
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Didn't I read that the other day on this site? Maybe I'm wrong.
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Apr 18, 2007 12:37:00 PM CDT
Donchya Wish Yo Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me: The Musical
by spandau belly
Make it happen!
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And with Jim Steinman writing the songs for it, maybe that is a good thing. I read somewhere that some of the music he wrote for it wound up on the last Meat Loaf album....
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the batman musical songs were terrible and yeah, some of them ended up on the new meat loaf album which is also terrible. so i think its safe to say the batman musical is dead.
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...Fame beating out The Empire Strikes Back for best score.
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...and it was called "Rent".
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They should just make a new movie musical without cashing in on the name (but of course that's the point)without the soul and edge of Alan Parker's original (those performances were razor sharp), it'd be so much navel fluff.
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tres jolie, Coco! Tres jolie
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any song in that beats that Batman song. Dear God. And no to Fame remake; that was so about its time.
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DO WE REALLY NEED THIS REMADE???
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Fo' sho'?
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I think Kirsten Dunst could do something amazing with this.
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Young Janet, Nia Peeples, Debbie Allen, Cynthia Gibbs.... What more could you ask for?
P.S. Leroy was getting his. -
Oh Christ, this has got to stop.
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It doesn't have to have giant insects and lasers to be a good piece of entertainment. (It helps, but it's not necessary.)
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That's it.
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High school kids going through teen issues at a performing arts high school is exactly like an adaptation of La Boheme with AIDS.
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And 75th or so. :)
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I always thought that the Schumacher awfulness that was Batman & Robin was a bolywood musical in disguise. The fight scenes reminded me of bollywood dance routines. Put a bollywood song to the fight routine and you'll see what i mean.
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Had a rethink .Get Trey Parker and Matt Stone to write and direct it. " Hey I am Famous" "Hey its good for you" , "TV taught me everything about you", " The Toenail song", "Trouser Puppets". The insane factor would be nuclear on this. Parker & Stone for "Fame"!!
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"Barbarella: the Musical"?
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I did Fame in high school on stage. It was crap. I have no interest in seeing any remake of it. Let that damn show die and be forgotten.
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Performing Arts High School (the real school they shot the film in and about) just outside then seedy Time's Square, has been closed since the mid 80's. It moved to a nicer uptown area and joined with the school of music and art to become the LaGuardia School of the Arts. The point is that there is no longer a school for struggling performers in the heart of Time's Square Theater district. Hell, there's barely even a theater district anymore.
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...who are just misunderstood and express themselves through music?. If so, I'm SOOO there.
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No one sees this remake and mutters anything about childhoods being raped...
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*vomits some more*
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