Do You Want to See 'Fight Club: The Musical'?
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, RumorMonger, Remakes and Sequels
In this current media climate, musicals are hotter than hot -- whether they bounce back and forth between stage and cinema (like Hairspray and The Producers), or they come from seemingly surprising fare. When Evil Dead: The Musical hit the stage a few years ago, a whole new venue was tapped -- that of horrific singing and dancing. Now we've got Sweeney Todd, and are soon to have Repo: The Genetic Opera! to sing along with as killers slice and dice. But a whole new area might be tapped -- the testosterone-laden action drama -- and it could come at the hands of David Fincher of all people.He recently talked with MTV about his last film, Zodiac, and then chatted about his past and upcoming projects. He said: "One of the things I want at the 10-year anniversary is to do Fight Club as a musical on Broadway. I love the idea of that." Yes, folks -- we might see a bunch of half-naked men singing and dancing while they fight and destroy each other. I think I have about zero interest in the film as a musical -- well, aside from some curiosity about how they'll keep the machismo high with song, dance, and partial nudity. Methinks this would easily become a wild, gay phenomenon. Okay, I'd also be interested in how ridiculous it would be to have Robert Paulson dance around with his man boobs, but in that train wreck sort of way. I definitely see the humor in Fight Club, but I'm not so sure about the song and dance -- how about you?
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1-07-2008 @ 1:53PM
eugene said...
only if they get the original principles back.
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1-07-2008 @ 2:06PM
Kelsey said...
It would be so absurd! Sure, if they can pull it off, do it.
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1-07-2008 @ 2:55PM
chris said...
let's not forget the latent homoeroticism present in the film. sweaty guys, sweaty fists, sweatier idealism. i'm sold if they incorporate the pixies's tune.
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1-07-2008 @ 5:07PM
Midnight13 said...
Good book, great movie. The stage production would be, trippy. Hey they did a stage play for "A Clockwork Orange" but I don't think Alex was singing while being strapped to a chair and and his eyelids were forced open. Why not? However the film has become a classic, don't make a film musical version of the movie afterwards, I don't care how good the stage version works out.
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