So, wait. Where's the Rent movie info? I just looked on imdb, and almost all the Bway people are listed, which is very exciting, except...aren't they too old now?
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Jesse - Feb 20, 2005 7:56:27 am PST #9203 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Lilty Cash - Feb 20, 2005 8:00:21 am PST #9204 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Well, I've got a friend who's got a friend working on the movie, so she knew about locations stuff. She didnt talk about casting, as we were too busy constructing the aforementioned Santa Fe dream sequence train wreck.
I had checked imdb, though, and I think that the only two casting changes from the original were Rosario Dawson as Mimi and Traci Thoms as Joanne. That could be all wrong, though.
Jesse - Feb 20, 2005 8:02:59 am PST #9205 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Right on. Man, I loved Rent. Now I can't decide if I'm excited or dreading it.
Lilty Cash - Feb 20, 2005 8:10:59 am PST #9206 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
We were big Rent-head types in high school. We were torn between the promise of a movie with a near original-cast, and a nightmare of Chris Columbus trying to make his very own little Moulin Rouge.
Jesse - Feb 20, 2005 8:13:06 am PST #9207 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Chris Columbus + original cast says to me it will be a perfectly adequate recreation of the original stage show. With, apparently, added Santa Fe......
Lilty Cash - Feb 20, 2005 8:18:33 am PST #9208 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Well, I checked an Adam Pascal site and an Idina Metzel site, and they both say they are starting soon. So the casting is probably right.
Starts to get excited.
Lyra Jane - Feb 20, 2005 9:35:22 am PST #9209 of 10001
Up with the sun
can someone explain a scenario in which they do two days of filming for the movie in Santa Fe that wouldn't be ridiculously silly?
My guess would be they show Roger getting there and turning around. They might also do a "dream sequence"-type montage during the lyrics where Collins et. al. fantasize about the restaurant. I don't think it would necessarily be a bad thing; for one, it would help make that part of the show, which is basically just people in the loft in the stage version, more visual. Why do you see it as a nightmare, Lilty?
(I have no idea why they'd film whatever-it-is in Santa Fe and not on a soundstage, other than "we have money, and we're gonna use it.")
The scary rumor I heard is that they're setting it in '87-'88. I always assumed it was set in the "now" of when Larsen wrote it -- '95-'96 -- and the earlier setting seems wrong to me, especially in the context of how the play treats AIDS/HIV.
erikaj - Feb 20, 2005 10:38:37 am PST #9210 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Betsy HP - Feb 20, 2005 10:45:47 am PST #9211 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I know nothing about how Hughes actually appeared,
Darkly handsome, cheekbones for miles, very, very masculine appearance. On the Robert Mitchum end of the gorgeous-guy scale, not the Leslie Howard end.
DavidS - Feb 20, 2005 10:51:06 am PST #9212 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
> On the Robert Mitchum end of the gorgeous-guy scale, not the Leslie Howard end.
Also, he had the tall lanky, slightly stooped posture of Jimmy Stewart.
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