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Post by danb on Jul 22, 2020 20:08:53 GMT
BWW is reporting that Disney are developing a musical version of this amazing film about the role of 3 black women in sending John Glenn into space. The film is next level great, and features amazing performances from Janelle Monae, Octavia Spencer & Taraajii P Henson, so the scope for giving 3 black women excellent parts is immense. If they can pull this off it would be amazing. Please merge if theres already a thread.
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Post by Jon on Jul 22, 2020 20:11:29 GMT
I liked the film but it doesn't scream musical to me, would probably work better as a play.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 20:27:31 GMT
I liked the film but it doesn't scream musical to me, would probably work better as a play. Agreed - it would be a fantastic play but the thought of it as a musical doesn't appeal. It's a brilliant film and it just feels wrong as a musical rather than a straight play. |
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Post by danb on Jul 22, 2020 21:04:55 GMT
Could you see Mamma Mia as a musical before the film? Grease? Saturday Night Fever? Matilda is practically a documentary! If they can make a musical out of that they can certainly find musical mileage in a nice lady having to walk ten minutes to find a toilet. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 23:17:13 GMT
Could you see Mamma Mia as a musical before the film? Grease? Saturday Night Fever? Matilda is practically a documentary! If they can make a musical out of that they can certainly find musical mileage in a nice lady having to walk ten minutes to find a toilet. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Mamma Mia was a musical before the film, so was Grease, and Matilda is fiction, so not sure what your point is there in the slightest... And they are very different plots to Hidden Figures. Maybe it's just a matter of taste - I'd much rather they showed some respect for the women involved and did it as a proper play rather than a cheesy musical. And I hope you weren't being serious with your last sentence. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 22, 2020 23:58:16 GMT
I can't even see this working as a play. Yes, the story is inspiring but the film is not really that gripping. The individual stories have a certain amount of power but I was not particularly engaged or moved by the piece as a whole.
It is good that there has been some acknowledgement of the role these women played - even if it did the usual thing of twisting things to make the narrative fit the needs of the film.
But as a musical? I just don't see it.
This just isn't a story that needs to be celebrated through the medium of musical theatre.
** a quick google indicates that this really isn't new news. The idea of a musical version was first talked about in 2017. Today's news seems to be the involvement of Disney. But without details of composer/lyricist/book writer, it is hard to muster any enthusiasm.
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Post by danb on Jul 23, 2020 5:03:12 GMT
Could you see Mamma Mia as a musical before the film? Grease? Saturday Night Fever? Matilda is practically a documentary! If they can make a musical out of that they can certainly find musical mileage in a nice lady having to walk ten minutes to find a toilet. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Mamma Mia was a musical before the film, so was Grease, and Matilda is fiction, so not sure what your point is there in the slightest... And they are very different plots to Hidden Figures. Maybe it's just a matter of taste - I'd much rather they showed some respect for the women involved and did it as a proper play rather than a cheesy musical. And I hope you weren't being serious with your last sentence. Was it? You don’t say? 🙄 Maybe, just maybe, I was making a joke. It may not have been very funny, and it may have been a bit dry & under the radar, but a joke it was. I was thinking it would be similar in ‘tone‘ to ‘Caroline or Change’ than ‘Mamma Mia’; inspirational rather than trite. |
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Post by justsaying113 on Jul 23, 2020 5:50:53 GMT
It's a very fine film - just leave it alone!
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Post by sf on Jul 24, 2020 11:21:26 GMT
I watched it again the other night for the first time since it was out in cinemas. It's not a bad film, and there are some very good performances in it, but nothing about it screams "please make me into a musical".
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