It’s crazy that a movie like this can cost more than the price of the entire Lord of the rings trilogy
It really grinds my gears that they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they’ll be rewarded for it. Together, they’ll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.
What’s worse is that it was in no way made public that this was a part 1.
You really think this is going to do gang busters? I’m not even convinced it will make the money back
I really do. I think it will be more Lion King remake than Cats adaptation. But I’m ready to admit that I was wrong if people don’t line up in droves for it. I think the first will do much better than the second, because a ton of people will say “the ending sucked. It just stopped without any resolution. And there wasn’t even half the songs from Wizard of Oz.”
Hopefully they take a nice fat loss on this!
And me, I’m still pissed at how much the play isn’t like the book. I would have loved to seen them adapt that.
The musical is a based on a book? TIL.
I wasn’t interest in the stage performance or the movie but I liked the Baum books as a kid, I’ll have to give it a look.
Yeah the book is much darker and more in depth. It gets into topics around class divides and suicide. Which is why when I went to see the play it was so jarring to me.
I used to work at a book store at the time it released, it was very popular. You expect a stage play to be more upbeat I guess, but basing the movie on the play based on the book, sounds like a complete miss
Anticipating Book > Film (musical?) > Play/Musical
Hopefully, what they padded the movie with is the contents — the politics — of the book. As u/MrVilliam said above:
they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they’ll be rewarded for it. Together, they’ll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.
It’s not written by Baum, though.
