Ryan McNeil
Last night, m’lady and I went to see SPRING AWAKENING at The Canon Theatre. It’s an amazing musical. Go see it if you have the means, but leave the little kids at home. As we were walking up Victoria Street, I said aloud “Now that would make a great movie.”
Ask and ye shall receive it seems. As noted in the article, McG has signed on to adapt the show into a movie. This leaves me a little curious. My thoughts continue after the jump.
For starters, I tend to see McG as an action guy…not a coming-of-age drama guy. While it’s true his work on WE ARE MARSHALL showed he can direct a halfway decent film that doesn’t involve guns and bombs, it doesn’t exactly cement him as a musical go-to either. There’s no promise that he’ll direct right this moment, but I can only hope he plucks someone with some stage vision to take the reigns for this.
Beyond my uncertainty of McG’s directorial influence, is the fact that the man is already attached to three other upcoming projects (CAPTAIN NEMO, DEAD SPY RISING, and the next TERMINATOR sequel). With four films to choose from, what do you think the odds are something nice like this gets back-burnered? Or for that matter, shelved entirely?
I sincerely hope that doesn’t happen, I’d hate to see this film fall into development hell the same way RENT did. It’s one of the few musicals out there that tells an amazing story, it could likely be made on a lower budgets, and it deserves to be seen sooner rather than later.
In case you’re interested, I’ve taken /Film’s lead and embedded a clip from the show below…
I saw Spring Awakening last year and enjoyed it a lot. Review. McG directing it is a bit disconcerting. It could make a great movie musical, in the right hands. Too big would be bad.