I think Perks of being a Wallflower would be an interesting adaptation. Not sure how they would incorporate the Rocky Horror Show stuff into it though, they would probably have to get the licence to use the songs etc.

The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#4
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:10pm

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Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:23pm

I've always had a mini-vision for a HOLES musical in my mind. Kind of a modern sound for the camp scenes and a sweeping gorgeous musical theatre one for extended flashbacks to the Teacher and Ezra stories.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#6
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:26pm

Dead poets society, Mrs.doubtfire, Dave, 12 years a slave, tangled, Pocahontas. I have a lot more

And I remember this musical I remember their brilliance And I might never sleep again...

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#7
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:28pm

The Serbian Movie.

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Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:36pm

Requiem for a Dream.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#9
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:48pm

Tootsie as a musical, 7 Days In May as a straight play. Both great "Idea" stories and brilliantly written to boot.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#10
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:00pm

A fun game is thinking of random movies that don't usually come to mind re: musical adaptions and imagining how, in the right hands, they could be terrific onstage. Take a random number generator and apply it to the Criterion Collection, for instance, and we get Dreyer's "Master of the House", a satirical comedy about a tyrannical husband whose housemaid, once his nursemaid, cows him into submission through a game of psychological cat-and-mouse. Feminist dark comedy chamber one-act, easy peasy.

Or Ophuls's "La Ronde", in which we see a series of vignettes via a linked circle of people, hosted by a winking, reality-altering emcee. There's a linking theme of the carousel, of regret, of "ronde" music and dancing, I mean it seems so apparent I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. Or Satyajit Ray's "Charulata", about a lonely housewife whose placid life, suffocated by her ignorant but wealthy husband, is turned upside-down when her husband's cousin, a poet, visits and helps her open herself up to new feelings, emotions, and ways of thinking. Or Babette's Feast, in which a housekeeper upsets the careful balance of a tiny, piously religious island in the Jutlands when she wins a lottery and puts on a lavish feast that dares its occupants to feel in a way that they've spent their lives denying. All stories of feeling and beauty that lend themselves naturally to music.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#11
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:15pm

Fight Club, but that's already happening...ish.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#12
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:17pm

Pineapple Express and/or The Interview

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Tommy Wiseau's The Room

"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire

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Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:22pm

"Precious". Love the book and the movie. Oprah can produce it. It will be a Best Actress & Supporting Actress Tony winning role.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#14
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:52pm

Charley Kringas Inc said: "Or Ophuls's "La Ronde", in which we see a series of vignettes via a linked circle of people, hosted by a winking, reality-altering emcee. There's a linking theme of the carousel, of regret, of "ronde" music and dancing, I mean it seems so apparent I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet."

It has been done. LaChiusa adapted the Schnitzler play (which the film is based on) into Hello Again in 1994. It was also adapted by David Hare as The Blue Room which ran on Broadway in the late 90s starring Nicole Kidman. These are just two of numerous adaptations of the piece.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#15
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:54pm

I'm surprised Disney hasn't attempted Hercules yet!

I'd also love to see The Social Network adapted as a straight play.

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Posted: 11/30/15 at 12:04am

HOCUS POCUS. WHY HASNT IT HAPPENED YET? WHY?

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Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:19am

I would love to see a great adaptation of Pleasantville as a musical. The moments in the film where characters switch to being in colour would make natural places for songs, and a good combination of costuming/lighting could pull off the colour moments, kind of like they managed to simulate black and white in City of Angels. The film is so emotionally touching that i think it would lend itself well to some soaring music.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#18
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:16am

Hamlet 2

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Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:20am

adam.peterson44 said: "I would love to see a great adaptation of Pleasantville as a musical. The moments in the film where characters switch to being in colour would make natural places for songs, and a good combination of costuming/lighting could pull off the colour moments, kind of like they managed to simulate black and white in City of Angels. The film is so emotionally touching that i think it would lend itself well to some soaring music.

Y.E.S.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#20
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:44am

sparklemotion said: "HOCUS POCUS. WHY HASNT IT HAPPENED YET? WHY?

I know! I want another musical about witches! I LOVE Hocus Pocus!

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#21
Posted: 11/30/15 at 4:24am

Classic movies have always been the ones that have adapted the best, so here are some suggestions:

Brief Encounter

Only Angels Have Wings

A Matter of Life and Death

The Palm Beach Story

All That Heaven Allows

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#22
Posted: 11/30/15 at 5:58am

Kneehigh have already done a stunning production of Brief Encounter in London. Incidently there was a wonderful adaptation of Strangers on a Train too.

The way Reservoir Dogs is written, it feels perfect for the stage as a straight play but I doubt Tarantino would ever let it happen.

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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#23
Posted: 11/30/15 at 6:04am

Death Becomes Her.