Follow MovieBlips on Twitter
Blog Reactions
Total Film News: Lee Daniels planning Miss Saigon movie
Cinema Blend News: Precious Director Daniels Moving On To Miss Saigon
Reactions
 |
Not sure how I feel about turning my favorite musical into a movie: http://bit.ly/1QNAnf 10/21/2009 |
Lee Daniels planning Miss Saigon movie
Total Film News —
Lee Daniels, who is winning praise for his new film Precious: Based On The Novel Push Bt Sapphire, is mulling the idea of turning Miss Saigon into a film. While it's still to early to say if he'll commit to it as his next project, it looks like he'll have some major producing support - Paula Wagner is backing the film as her first job since leaving Tom Cruise's faltering United Artists. There's still the small matter of a script to be written, and whoever tackles the job will have to stay faithful to Claude-Michael Schonberg and Alain Boubil's story of ill-fated love between a Vietnamese girl and a US soldier before the ...
Precious Director Daniels Moving On To Miss Saigon
Cinema Blend News —
... heard some hints from Precious director Lee Daniels that a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Miss Saigon might be his next directing project. Now his reps have confirmed it in Variety , where they report that Paula Wagner will produce the film under her new Chestnut Ridge Productions. Cameron Mackintosh, who produced Saigon 's Broadway run as well as just about every giant-budget Broadway show you can think of from the 90s, will be producing the screen version as well. The story follows the basic outline of the opera Madame Butterfly , with the setting updated ...
10/21 Oscarweb Round-up
In Contention —
• Pete Hammond joins the speculation that yesterday’s Oscarcast producer announcement bodes well for a Jackman repeat. [Notes on a Season]
• Nathaniel Rogers is awed in the presence of Tilda Swinton at the New Yorker Festival. (Where, apparently, “Michael Clayton” was never mentioned. Huh.) [Tribeca Film]
• David Poland brands the Gotham Awards “meaningless” for not trying to predict the Oscars. I despair. [The Hot Blog]
• Anne Thompson digs into the “cannily constructed façade” that is the ...
'Precious' Director Might Make 'Miss Saigon' Musical
Get The Big Picture —
... There is, of course, a high degree of difficulty with that project, but there's also a ton of potential. Says Variety, "The movie will be faithful to Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's tragic love story of a Vietnamese bar girl and an American soldier before the fall of Saigon in 1975." ...
