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A new musical film version of Moulin Rouge? Baz Luhrmann says "I think we'll see that" (www.whatsonstage.com)

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Speaking at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, Baz Luhrmann revealed he had “absolutely” considered re-adapting Moulin Rouge! into a film.

The hit show is based on the much-loved turn-of-the-century film about a Parisian courtesan who falls in love with a writer. It starred Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. At the 74th Academy Awards it was nominated for eight Oscars, winning two.

Said Luhrman:

Do a film version of this stage evolution of Moulin Rouge!? The thought has crossed my mind. Yeah, I think we’ll see that. And the preposterous conceit about Moulin Rouge! is that the poet opens his mouth, and contemporary music that we all love comes out of it. So I can see in 20 years you recalibrating it again with new music.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well hooray for Baz Luhrmann. He already did a musical movie version of Moulin Rouge and it was ridiculous and silly as hell. Frankly I never thought it was very good anyway and I'm not sure why we need a remake of it since it's very mediocre stuff to begin with. But, it's one movie I definitely will not be standing in line for (along with any more movies about King Kong or Godzilla or Dracula or Marvel superheros).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I mostly remember about the movie is the sense of whiplash I got from the frantic editing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I remember that also, one of the reasons I walked out of it. I guess it suits modern day ADHD autistic sensibilities, but to me it was a headache inducing fu##fest. And to me, the only good song (diamonds are a girls best friend) was massacred by the horrible editing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While there have been plenty of movie to stage musical to movie musical adaptations (The upcoming The Color Purple and Mean Girls are two), this would be the first (I think?) movie musical to stage musical to movie musical adaptation.

The current stage musical maintains a lot of the songs used in the original movie (like "Tango Roxanne" and the only original song, "Come What May"), but also adds (snippets of) many more. Luhrmann's statement that "So I can see in 20 years you recalibrating it again with new music." seems to speak to something else again - the idea of doing yet another take on Moulin Rouge (whether on stage or on film) with music drawn from the bigger pool available in another generation or so. Sort of like Disney's idea of revising Fantasia every so often.