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#26Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:28amOk, so what about JAKE GYLLENHAAL for The Baker??
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#27Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:28amConsidering the fact that her performance stole the entire NINE movie, I would bet she is on the short list for The Witch.
#28Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:30amSure Cruz is beautiful, but she's honestly all wrong for The Witch.
#29Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:30amOr as she would say it, "I am on the shore lisht for the The Wish"
#30Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:34amMarion Cotillard was the highlight of Nine for me. She'd be... an interesting Witch.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#31Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:35am
Where does it say that The Witch can't have a Spanish accent?????
A bunch of effing racists and zenophiles on this board!!!!
#32Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:35am
Kate Winslet and Toni Collette are the ONLY two options for Baker's Wife for me.
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
Updated On: 10/2/12 at 01:35 AM
#33Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:35amThe end credits of NINE was the highlight for me. They should play the Witch.
#34Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:37am
Hey, Bob3 - Suck it.
People who throw the word "racist" around like that totally take away the words true meaning. Nothing anyone said was racist in any way and you know it.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#35Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:39am
Maybe not racist...but definitely xenophobic.
Updated On: 10/2/12 at 01:39 AM
#36Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 1:41amNo, it was called a joke. Stop trying to be so holier than thou.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#38Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 2:33amI knew you were joking, it just makes me laugh when you get your panties in a bunch. Updated On: 10/2/12 at 02:33 AM
#39Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 2:43amThis sounds fake to me. Yes it's a reading, but even then I don't see people like Tammy Blanchard and Megan Hilty agreeing to play Florinda and Lucinda. They barely speak at all.
hyperbole_and_a_half
Leading Actor Joined: 3/21/11
#40Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 2:43am
Never, ever considered Anna Kendrick for that role. Kind of totally love it.
Toni Collette is too old for BW, but she might be a good Witch.
#41Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 6:26amToni Collette needs to do the movie version of Next 2 Normal.
#42Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 6:30am
One interesting thing:
David Garrison is listed as the "Screenplay Narrator." Not the Narrator/Mysterious Man. And there's no indication that they're using the boy-as-narrator concept for the film.
As for the cast, I could definitely see some of them making it into the final film, but not the leads. I would bet the Witch, Baker, and Baker's Wife will be played by much bigger "movie" names.
Some good choices all around, though!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#43Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 9:08am
Besty, you're right! It didn't even occur to me that they're not using the ridiculous child!!
Doin my happy dance!!
#44Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 9:09amAnd no, Bob. You didn't know I was joking and that was your lame attempt to save face.
#45Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 9:13am
Toni Collette needs to do the movie version of Next 2 Normal.
Sorry but I have already cast Kate Winslet in that role.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#46Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 9:28am
I would love to see James Corden as the baker. He's certainly made a theatre name for himself, he's downright beloved across the pond,and he's not enough of a name to be downright distracting...
I'm sorry, the biggest problem with some of these movie musicals lately is that they cast based on the name. Talented or not, it takes me out of a movie to see an A-List name. All I can think is, "Hey, there's John Travolta in a fat suit" or "Hey, there's Queen Latifah...again."
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#47Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 9:33amWell the biggest problem is that there's not this great abundance of actors who can sing well enough to do movie musicals (or at least not a lot who WANT to do them) so the same ones keep getting cast. And that's not going to change until they start dubbing actors, like they done since day 1. Then, like I've said before, we can have people like Sandra Bullock as the Bakers Wife.
#48Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 9:37am
This is a surprisingly solid cast even for a reading. I hope some of them stick around for the film, but like everyone has said, there's no way the three leads of the films will be anything but big, Hollywood stars.
I also have a feeling that Zeta-Jones will end up as the Witch and I'm actually not mad about it. She'd be a great fit for that role. A much better fit for her than Desiree.
Sandra Bullock would be an excellent Baker's Wife. I wonder if she'd even go near it though. She doesn't always make the best choices.
broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#49Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast...
Posted: 10/2/12 at 9:42am
Dream Cast:
Steve Carell: Baker
Sandra Bullock: Baker's wife
CZJ: witch
................PERFECT..........
