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OK, this thread is likely going to either die quickly or meltdown in a flame war.
Cast a film of Follies for release in 2022. Here are my selections.
Buddy Plummer: Raul Esparza
Sally Durant Plummer: Patti LuPone
Ben Stone: Kenneth Branagh
Phyllis Rogers Stone: Christine Baranski
Stella Deems: Michelle Pfeifer
Carlotta Campion: Bernadette Peters
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 20, 2021 9:09 PM |
It's about time we finally talked about Follies!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 17, 2021 8:17 PM |
CZJ as adolescent Phyllis.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 17, 2021 8:22 PM |
Brian Cranston as Buddy
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 17, 2021 8:25 PM |
Raul Esparza, Patti LuPone, Kenneth Branagh and Christine Baranski?
That'll pack 'em in!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 17, 2021 8:26 PM |
Honey, that cast wouldn’t cut it on Netflix. Beyoncé IS Phyllis.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 17, 2021 8:27 PM |
No one wants to hear La LuPone try to warble her way thorough Buddy's Eyes or Too Many Mornings.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 17, 2021 8:29 PM |
Brendad Ickson IS Solange La Fitte!!
Eh bien, bonjour!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 17, 2021 8:33 PM |
How about nobody. How about they never make a film of Follies and if anyone threatens to make one they get sentenced to death?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 17, 2021 8:36 PM |
Tracy Ullman and Rowan Atkinson as the Whitmans.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 17, 2021 8:47 PM |
Raul Esparza and Patti LuPone? As what, mother and son?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 17, 2021 8:50 PM |
Meryl Streep in every role.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 17, 2021 8:50 PM |
Kennedy Center honoree Debbie Allen IS Hattie!
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 17, 2021 8:55 PM |
FOLLIES!
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 17, 2021 9:05 PM |
I think they should get Tina Louise for Carlotta. Now that she's the lone survivor of the Minnow, her "I'm Still Here" will be especially poignant!
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 17, 2021 9:07 PM |
James Corden as Roscoe
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 17, 2021 10:39 PM |
r3 I never miss a Bryan Cranston musical.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 17, 2021 10:40 PM |
No. Just. No. Beautiful -- stunning score. But the premise/story/book are so dated/of their time. If you made a film of this today, everyone would be like "WTF -- just get a fucking a divorce and move on!"
Not to mention that it would have to be set in the 70s still and only the audiences of the 70s would really understand the cultural allusions and references to the 20s-40s that lie at the heart of the ghost stories of these peoples' pasts.
It's a period piece of a period piece.
It's also a lot of stand downstage and sing. Inherently UNcinematic.
Just... let it go, guys. Enjoy the show and the revivals. A film would be terrible.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 17, 2021 10:44 PM |
Agree with R17, but for the hell of it, Pfeiffer for Carlotta and Midler for Hattie.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 17, 2021 11:24 PM |
Seeing shit threads like this disgusts me for being gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 17, 2021 11:43 PM |
Sadly, R17 is right. The dream of a Follies film will always be better than any Follies film that could be made.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 18, 2021 2:45 AM |
People have said the same about stage productions but the London production by the National Theatre proved that the property can still be done well. And anyone who thinks FOLLIES isn't filmic... hasn't a fucking clue.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 20, 2021 7:50 PM |
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| by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 20, 2021 7:50 PM |
It may be interesting to cast African American actors as Buddy and Sally, adding to the reasons asshole Ben chooses Phyllis.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 20, 2021 9:09 PM |
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