Which Musicals Should Become Movies?

[Jester]

In a time when movies are being turned to musicals (The Producers, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Wedding Singer, and [blech] Legally Blonde) what musicals should be turned around and made into movies?

I know that this is a weird thread, but I've come to learn that I do like musicals and there are a few I'd love to see made into movies, just so I could actually see them. They are:

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Wicked
Spamalot (I know it's weird, but they did it to Producers; movie, to musical, to movie musical.)
Avenue Q

So any takers?

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Jester

In a time when movies are being turned to musicals (The Producers, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Wedding Singer, and [blech] Legally Blonde) what musicals should be turned around and made into movies?

I know that this is a weird thread, but I've come to learn that I do like musicals and there are a few I'd love to see made into movies, just so I could actually see them. They are:

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Wicked
Spamalot (I know it's weird, but they did it to Producers; movie, to musical, to movie musical.)
Avenue Q

So any takers?

Few things...

Wicked IS going to be made into a movie at some point, however it could be a CGI animated ffilm from last I heard.

I'd kill to see Avenue Q as a movie, since I can't afford tickets to see it next month.

And as for Spamalot... I have the program from seeing it, actually, and inside the composer (I forget the name) said that it would be an impossibility. They clearly don't want to do it, for fear it will be nothing more than a "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" remake. Or something to that extent. Personally, I would rather the composer and Eric Idle make another Monty Python movie based musical. Hopefully based on "Meaning of life" (Every Sp**m is Sacred demands an on stage performance) The two are reportedly working on another musical together, however.

BTW, the composer is also the same guy who composed the music for all three of the TMNT movies.

[gobo]

^^ John Du Prez kicks anus.

Although this is a weak connection to the topic given, I'd like to see the Evil Dead musical on DVD.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

Few things...

Wicked IS going to be made into a movie at some point, however it could be a CGI animated ffilm from last I heard.

I'd kill to see Avenue Q as a movie, since I can't afford tickets to see it next month.

And as for Spamalot... I have the program from seeing it, actually, and inside the composer (I forget the name) said that it would be an impossibility. They clearly don't want to do it, for fear it will be nothing more than a "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" remake. Or something to that extent. Personally, I would rather the composer and Eric Idle make another Monty Python movie based musical. Hopefully based on "Meaning of life" (Every Sp**m is Sacred demands an on stage performance) The two are reportedly working on another musical together, however.

BTW, the composer is also the same guy who composed the music for all three of the TMNT movies.

Yeah, but did Mel Brooks care? No, I think the Musical version of the Producers is almost better than the original.

[Drtooth]

I found the Playbill, and this is John's exact quote:

One project Du Prez doesn't think you'll see is a Spamalot motion picture, in the vein of The Producers move from film, to stage, back to film. " Holy grail recently came in number 7 on a poll of Britain's favorite films," Laughs Du Prez. "I don't think we'd be allowed to do a movie remake of something that beloved."

[Jester]

Well, that sucks.