A John Woo... musical?

[kitty]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2993

John Woo Talks Upcoming Musical
Source: Empire Online (http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=5283)

Empire Online got chatting with director John Woo about an upcoming musical project he's working on that's something of a mix between The Killer and Cabaret.

"We have almost got a finished script right now," he says. "It is an ambitious project. I have been dreaming of making this for seven years. It is an American gangster story, based on a true story. In the 1920s there was a gang boss who was also a great dancer. It's also a love story – this guy was in love with two women. So it's a new kind of challenge, a new kind of experiment."

Woo adds that "there's going to be a lot of dance and a lot of action. Sometimes the action will look pretty much like dance and the dance will look pretty much like action."

Visit the link above for more of the interview.

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oh... my... god...

no john, just stop. stop.

[BaiginLong]

this will be ...interesting
I just hope he doesn't focus too much on the action and focus more on the musical and dance elements
if anything it might be a small return to the Chinese opera of Olden days who knows but I wish him luck

[TB4000]

Yeah, I heard about this, but didn't know the whole deal. But then again, he is planning on executive producing and directing new live action versions of Mighty Mouse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so whose to say he ain't a genius underneath all the strange choices?

[kitty]

he needs to stop. really...

face/off was excellent... but he can only ride on that for so long.

looosing... faith... in ... him... *sob*

[thaite]

as long as there's a crapload of doves flying, i'm down.

[mr. x]

so THATS why they call em "operas"

well anyway for those who dont what im talking about theres this mod for Halflife called The Opera and its like a HK action thing yeah...

[contra_diction]

i dunno, seems kinda cool.
i'm always wary when people start trying to branch out more and more from what they do best. it seems like that's what mr. woo's doing. but at the same time, i'm intersted to see what he can do. i'm nervous, now.

[Martino]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2993

John Woo Talks Upcoming Musical
Source: Empire Online (http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=5283)

Empire Online got chatting with director John Woo about an upcoming musical project he's working on that's something of a mix between The Killer and Cabaret.


Cabaret? Excellent choice, mein herr ...

[Martino]

oh... my... god...

no john, just stop. stop.


Could be the next Happiness of the Katakuris...

Then again, could be John Woo's last movie ...

[TB4000]

3.18.04
By Devin Faraci
Contributing sources: Coming Soon

John Woo wants to make an all dancing, all killing gangster movie, and he wants Hugh Jackman to star. The director of Paycheck and Mission Impossible II (and some killer Hong Kong movies) has had his heart set on making a film about an American gangster who happens to be a very good dancer.

"I want to do an action-musical," says Woo. "I have dreamed about doing it for seven years. It's an American gangster movie and is about a gangster who is also a good dancer. It is not a singing movie, but there is dancing and action."

"We are working on the script and it's almost done," he adds. For those of you who only know Jackman as Wolverine, he’s also an accomplished song and dance man, having appeared in Oklahoma!, and he currently appears on Broadway as flaming entertainer Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz. Passing the billboard with Wolverine all done up in bright garish colors and camping it up like a boy scout troop is a strange experience, let me tell you.

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Getting Hugh Jackman for your movie is a definite step in the right direction, but will this thing work? That's what I'm skeptical about.