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Osage County will be adapted to the screen
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#25re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:05pmGlamorous? Guess you never saw THE NIGHT LISTENER.
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#26re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:05pm
The characters are supposed to be simple folks from the Midwest. WBaF is correct!
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Heybeenfood
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/06
#27re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 4:36pmPatricia Clarkson, anyone?
#28re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 4:57pm
Oh, oh, Patricia Clarkson can do anything.
And WannaBe knows how much I respect his opinion, but I personally think Collette is rather ordinary-looking. The whole premise of MURIEL'S WEDDING was the fact that she was so un-glam that she led that sort of odd life, and she looked incredibly ordinary and trailer-parky in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Sorry she was a bitch to you, Jay, but that doesn't make her any less worthy of these roles.
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#29re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 4:58pmAllison Janney is my choice for the Amy Morton role.
A Grey Spring
Stand-by Joined: 5/20/07
#30re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 5:07pm
I would love to see Laura Linney's take on Barbara
I'm not too surprised this is happening, I just hope it's a quater as good as the play.
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#31re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 6:43pmUsing the current cast has the benefit of keeping the focus on the play itself rather than "oh, it's what's-her-name."
thatgirl712
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/08
#32re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 7:34pmMe, too. Sissy would be great.
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
DrewBill
Stand-by Joined: 4/22/08
#33re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 9:55pm
The Broadway cast is brilliant, but it's not a realistic option to keep them for the film. Whomever lands up producing and directing this will probably need at least one or two more commercial names -- it's just a safer bet.
Two recent examples: "Rent" and "The History Boys" -- both had (more or less) their original stage casts, and both films were duds at the box office.
#34re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 10:22pm
Sissy Spacek would indeed be an ideal Violet, though Jane Fonda and Judy Davis are interesting choices too.
As for Barbara, I don't know if I like the idea of Laura Linney. Someone with more of an edge, like Holly Hunter, would be more appropriate.
In regards to the other roles, Kathy Bates is about as perfect for Matti Fae as you could get. I'd love to see her involved.
And as annoying and precocious as she can often be, Dakota Fanning would actually be a very strong choice for Jean.
She successfully played a character with more of a dark undercurrent in HIDE & SEEK, so I'd be interested to see her take on something like this.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 5/15/08 at 10:22 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
ChristopherDurangFan
Understudy Joined: 2/28/08
#35re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 10:32pm
I agree with Patricia Clarkson!
But actually, you know who would be REALLY good? Amy Morton
#36re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 10:54pmCan Imelda Staunton do an Oklahoma accent? Just askin'.
#37re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 11:09pm
I could see Christine Applegate in the Mariann Mayberry role...
I don't know why, it just came to me.
A Director
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/07
#38re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 11:38pmThe movie version of Bug was a HUGE hit.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#39re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 11:52pmI would KILL to have Judy Davis play Violet! I think Laura Linney is an interesting choice for Barbara but I love it. Isn't Dakota Fanning a little young for Jean?
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Theatreboy33
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#40re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/15/08 at 11:56pmHow about Sally Field as Violet?
BrianS
Broadway Star Joined: 10/8/07
#41re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:09amI bet you could cut a bit from the first 30 minutes of the play without losing a whole lot. Some of that dialogue is to help the audience get their bearings and in film you can establish that stuff a lot faster. I can't wait to see how well the phone call scene translates in Frost/Nixon, I really don't care about Doubt (though I liked the play) but this will be the play I'm most looking forward to seeing on the big screen.
If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them. - Ethel Merman
#42re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:51amIt would be amazing if they used the original cast since the are phenominal... but obviously not enough of a draw for Hollywood. I'm all for Meryl Streep being involved though! She'd be amazing as usual.
#43re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 1:16am
what about Lily Tomlin as Violet?
Laura Linney is good at one thing... playing herself. I want to see an actress who can take up Amy Morton's wonderful work and make it her own while still staying true to the character. I hope that if she gets it, she surprises me... but I don't think she will.
that's a really big mic...
#44re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 8:22amFosseBoi, the character of Jean is supposed to be 14, the exact age Fanning is now.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#45re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 9:20am
I must say, this is a damned intelligent thread. All of these ideas are wonderful. It's a question of chemistry, isn't it? Who would be good in what combo? My own feeling about Fonda is, she's almost too old -- not that she looks it. I think Violet reading in her early 60s works best (script says 65).
I'd vote for Sissy. (Does anyone remember her extraordinary if overlooked performance in THE STRAIGHT STORY?) I think she'd be stunning. And she'd absolutely capture the humanity in the rage, and the humor. Meryl can do anything, sure, but this seems less likely to be her metier.
Lily Tomlin is such a good idea, I wish they'd consider putting her in to the Broadway production with Deanna leaves. She has the stage legs and would absolutely work.
Makes me wish Robert Altman was around to direct the film.
How about the men? John C. Reilly? Beau Bridges? Jeff Bridges? Rip Torn? Even Steve Carell (the Kerwin part)? They could all have roles.
And for Little Charles? The guy who plays Randy on EARL?
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#46re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 9:24amI say keep the original cast. Keep it low budget. And don't give it to William Friedkin.
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#47re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 9:27am
I think JUDY DAVIS would be 100% hands down PERFECT as Violet!
I like Laura Liney or Allison Janney as Barbara as well.
#48re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 10:01amTrying to cast actors/actresses is fun and great fodder for the message boards but I am interested to see how the director will shoot Act 2. To me this is the best dialogue in the work and some of the funniest stuff I have seen on a Broadway stage. I am worried that Hollywood will chop it up because I just don't see them spending 1/3 of the movie in the dinning room. A chopped up Act 2 would be a great travesty and ruin the work in my opinion.
#49re: Osage County will be adapted to the screen
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:05pm
So I'd be totally excited to see this as a movie, providing they kept the brilliance from the stage, but can I just ask what is the sudden need for anything successful on Broadway to be made into a movie.
I mean there have been talks about Spring Awakening, this, and now Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I'm all for making the wonderful work available to a larger audience, but it seems that the minute it is reported that a show recouped its investment there are questions of a film.
Has anyone else noticed this or find it interesting?
