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OLIVER! announced to be remade by Cameron MacKintosh

posted 9 years ago by cliffcarson-502-470231
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Cameron Mackintosh is set to remake this movie with choreography by Matthew Bourne
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g55t9

[–] babybates 9 years ago

What a shame.....the original musical version is wonderful. I guess there are no ideas for something new anymore.

[–] cliffcarson-502-470231 9 years ago

I have no problem with it being remade. The original is the great one. Will be hard to top that, but the OLIVER! on the whole gives opportunities for real craftsmanship.
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[–] laurence01 8 years ago

I'm up for this, as long as they include the missing songs.

Let Zygons Be Zygons.

[–] cliffcarson-502-470231 8 years ago

NO missing songs. "I Shall Scream, My Name and That's Your Funeral" are stage songs. They don't work in film.
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[–] dmnemaine 8 years ago

Why, oh why do people remake movies whose originals are perfectly fine? They should remake movies that should have been good but are flawed. Carousel, South Pacific, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon, Finian's Rainbow, Mame, Brigadoon. These are some of the movie musicals just screaming for remakes.

[–] Gemini54 8 years ago

yes i completely agree leavevwell alone justbwarching time machine remake dreadful

[–] lz_merrifield 8 years ago

If they happen to do this, I have some ideas for a cast:

Oliver Twist- Colby Mulgrew

Artful Dodger- Elliot Reeve

(Everyone else I don't know)

[–] lnoft97 7 years ago

Remade as a musical? I suppose it has to be, though no one has clamored for a musical in decades.

I only pray there won't be FLEETS of boy dancers, in tights, prancing around on their tippy toes with corsets and top hats. And women in big clean ruffly flouncy can-can skirts, doing the same prancing.