WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Globefan
Broadway Star Joined: 10/31/12
#1WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 6:36pm
Tony Kushner has said that he wants to create a 10 part miniseries prequel to West Side Story focusing on Valentina's life based on the 30 page bio he wrote on the character. If it was made, would you watch it?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 6:43pm
I'd start watching.....and finish if it were good.
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#3WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 7:23pm
It’s Tony Kushner writing a WSS-adjacent period piece. There is no way it is any worse than “pretty good,” and probably much better than that. What I’d like the most is to someday see Kushner collaborate with his most prominent admirer/disciple, Mike Flanagan.
babyjunegem
Understudy Joined: 12/1/21
#4WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 7:39pm
Absolutely not. I like Kushner, but IMO he and WSS do not mix. His screenplay was horrendous and completely unsuited to the material. It truly hit me when I read the script separate of the film and became exhausted by the expository, overly talky dialogue. Kush, give us something else! Anything.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#5WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 7:54pm
10-part mini series?! WTF?!! A standard 2 hour Netflix film is more than enough. I personally feel the Valentina character was overused and I kept rolling my eyes every time she kept showing up. Her moments with Tony were beautiful, but then she was written into more scenes. In the original the adults were kept at a huge minimum. Valentina literally had more screen time than some of the lead Sharks and Jets. Oy!
bwaylyric
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
#6WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 7:58pm
Just announced that Rita Moreno will be joining “Fast X” to play Vin Diesel’s grandmother. Now that would make a better mini-series.
#7WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 8:42pm
babyjunegem said: "Absolutely not. I like Kushner, but IMO he and WSS do not mix. His screenplay was horrendous and completely unsuited to the material. It truly hit me when I read the script separate of the film and became exhausted by the expository, overly talky dialogue. Kush, give us something else! Anything."
You’re nuts.
#8WSS Valentina prequel miniseries
Posted: 5/24/22 at 8:49pm
If it wasn’t “talky” and discursive and unrealistically philosophical, it wouldn’t be Kushner. That’s his style, and it’s one that turns some people off, but hooks many more people in.
