I don’t hate this - I enjoyed the musical movie version of The Producers!
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Zemeckis, are you okay? Do we need to call someone?
This is one more way for him to say, "Fuck off. We're not doing a sequel or reboot." Maybe with a little dash of, "but if you still wanted to throw some money at me..."
Kinda makes sense, but it is still weird hearing him say it. Especially after the musical flop that was Joker 2
Joker 2 was also pretty much explicitly a "fuck you, we don't need a sequel" of a movie
as Zemeckis has already pitched the idea at Universal and “they don’t get it.”
I'm with them. I don't get it. It sounds like a horrible idea.
I could see this working if it were done in the style of "End of Evangelion", and it ended with Marty straddling and strangling Doc, for all of eternity.
Everytime I see your username I smile
if the franchise was disney's, it already would have been done, and it wouldn't have taken til 2021 to get it on stage in the first place, either.
I generally don't like musicals except for Enchanted, which I attribute to Disney kind of making fun of itself. However I've never seen a proper stage musical and as BTTF is one of my favourite films ever, I went to see the musical earlier this year.
I can't deny I was really entertained all the way through but I had no idea there was going to be about five minutes of "normalcy" before another song kicks in. I think there's around 14 songs in total.
Part of the magic is what is achieved on stage for sequences like the DeLorean driving around trying to get up to speeds of 88mph. I feel some of that would be lost in a transition to film because, in a way, that already exists.
I generally dislike musicals (with some exceptions like Dancer in the Dark and Moulin Rouge!), but the Back to the Future franchise seems like a bad fit for a musical.
More so than most franchises, Back to the Future feels very tied to the zeitgeist of its time (80s to early 90s).
Then again, they made Joker 2 a musical (I recently found out about this and had to double check that this wasn't a joke).