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Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed: Early buzz: 'Psycho,' Weird Al, Pearl Jam, more
SpoutBlog: A Film by Bruce Willis. Trade Roughage 09/24/08
Jossip: American Psycho Gets the Andrew Lloyd Webber Treatment
Gothamist: American Psycho Musical Bound for Broadway!
Complex Blog: 5 Book Adaptations That Shouldn’t Become Musicals
Early buzz: 'Psycho,' Weird Al, Pearl Jam, more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed —
Hey, guys! I hope all is well -- for some reason, my DVR didn't record Fringe , so I need to catch up. In the meantime, I can't stop thinking about last night's dream, in which Adrian Grenier came to visit my office cubicle and proceeded to steal all of my DVDs. I wonder what that means. Anyway, some headlines: - A musical stage version ...
A Film by Bruce Willis. Trade Roughage 09/24/08
SpoutBlog —
Here’s something I thought I’d never see, though I guess it is inevitable that all major actors will direct at least one film in their lives: the words “A Film by Bruce Willis” shall feature in the credits for the indie Three Stories About Joan, which will star Camilla Belle. In addition to making his directorial debut, Willis will also co-star as Belle’s father.
Initially, I also was surprised to read that American Psycho is getting the Broadway musical treatment. Then, I realized it’s basically just Sweeney Todd with ’80s music. Still, I have to ...
American Psycho Gets the Andrew Lloyd Webber Treatment
Jossip —
... , here's another one for ya: Brett Easton Ellis' most famously depraved novel, American Psycho, is heading to the stage. The book and subsequent film prominently feature monologues about 80s Reagan-era bands, which will play a large part in the musical production's development. ...
American Psycho Musical Bound for Broadway!
Gothamist —
... Bret Easton Ellis's violently satirical novel American Psycho will make a fabulous Broadway musical adaptation. Snicker if you must, but remember that naysayers also dismissed the novel as un-filmable, and that ended up getting a lot of critical acclaim. Of course, producers still need to contract a couple hacks to write the book and music, and they don't yet have the rights to those Genesis and Huey Lewis songs, either. But producer David Johnson (a former MGM exec) tells Variety the timing couldn't be more perfect: "Now in particular it seems ...
5 Book Adaptations That Shouldn’t Become Musicals
Complex Blog —
Okay, so for some reason a company has bought the stage rights to American Psycho and is planning to turn it into an ’80s musical. And we’ll be frank: we don’t understand this AT ALL.
Sure, some movies have worked on Broadway–Legally Blond, Shrek, The Producers–but those are all broad comedies. We’re talking about a movie that was adapted from an actual, no-pictures, BOOK. Two severed thumbs down, American Psycho: The Musical. And in case any of you would-be impresarios are considering adapting other books-that-became-movies into musicals, ...
