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Rob Marshall's adaptation of Broadway musical NINE gets some classy dames!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Rob Marshall's MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA follow-up brings him back to the musical genre. Already in the cast of NINE are Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Sophia Loren.
Now both Dame Judi Dench and Nicole Kidman are in talks to join the production. I could be wrong, but this would be the first musical for Kidman since MOULIN ROUGE, would it not? And this marks a return to musicals for Dench, who has an extensive background in stage musicals.
The Tony-winning musical centers around a film director (to be played by Bardem in the film) and the many women in his life... based on Fellini's 8 1/2. Thoughts?
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A little better?
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It's a film adaptation of a Broadway musical adapted from a Fellini film.
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i can already feel myself being bored by annnnnnyyyyttthhhing with the name Rooooobbbb, sorry getting really tired all of the sudden, Marshall attached to it. *sleep*
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We are talking about THE Rob Marshall? The man who graduated from the Steven Spielberg school of authentic nationality casting school? The director of Oscar winning movies that Edward Zwick SO desperately wants to be? OHHH YEAH him. Still boring.
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Like how the villains in every good movie is played by somebody from that very country? Which is how often?
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Or how Ben Kingsley is Indian?
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It has great music, great female roles. Though my fear is Nicole is playing the "muse" role of Claudia, a role Catherine Zeta Jones turned down as it was two "small". The odd thing is, Marion Colliard (as Louisa, Bardem's Contini's wife) is playing someone in her forties and Claudia is a younger woman (barely in her thirties). In the recent B'way revival Claudia was played by a 24 year old actress (Laura Bennanti, TV's Eli Stone's college love who's now dating his brother). Nicole is even worse casting than Zeta Jones (as ZJ is still sorta hot) But its an easy and potentially very good character. She has a song called "Unusual Way" which is a tiny piece of genious of the ballad genre.
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"friendo" into the lyrics? And I know Javier is the flavor of the month, but wasn't Antonio Banderas available to reprise his stage role?
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...wanted to direct it. Since he wasn't given the reins, I assume the role was either not offered to him or he turned it down.
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And this sounds cool though I thought Chicago was severly overrated. Still, I wish Spielberg directed "The Rivals" with Kidman.
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H.S.
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This is one of my favorite musicals, the Javier role was originally played by the great Raul Julia and all of the actors will have big shoes to fill. But Im most worried about Marshall as I agree with previous comments that Chicago (film version) was overrated. Couldve been better with another director.
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...for absolutely loving Marshall's "Chicago." Maybe it's because I actually dislike the stage version that I gravitated toward Bill Condon's interpretation of things.
Btw, I saw Judi Dench in '95 do "A Little Night Music," and she was glorious. Her "Send In The Clowns" was pretty much spoken through but it was still heartbreaking. -
I agree with Nero. I thought Chicago was really well done. It's probably the only musical that I didn't think was boring, cheezy, gay, or hoaky. While I'm not a huge fan of his adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, I think for what he was going for, he did an excellent job. It's just that he primarily focused the film's narrative on that annoying middle chunk of the book that was all girly girl Cinderella back-stabbing drama and streamlined all of the more fascinating cultural and sociopolitical elements where as I could see most other directors doing the opposite. Still, I think Marshall is a class act and so far he's been hit and no miss for me.
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