sewhite2000 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Not converted into a musical, thank God, but as both stage and screen seem completely incapable of coming up with original ideas anymore, the 41-year-old movie was relaunched as a play last year with Bryan Cranston in the Peter Finch role. Wikipedia says the play is a "more interactive experience" than the movie, as the audience is drawn to participate in the presentation. Also, from the technology behind Cranston in this shot, it appears the story has been moved up to modern times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 Oh, yeah, the show is just about to launch an American run with Cranston still in the part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 2 hours ago, sewhite2000 said: Not converted into a musical, thank God, but as both stage and screen seem completely incapable of coming up with original ideas anymore, London plays at least have some sense of "innovation" that lead them to try and stage adapt outside-media properties that haven't been done before (and besides, TV is still important over there as it was over here in the 70's). US musicals, OTOH, have priced themselves to the point that only corporations can produce them now--And all that corporate studios have any urge to produce anymore is their own marketing-franchise house-icon properties, imagining they're following Universal and Disney's leads. For example, if Paramount does a Spongebob, Mean Girls, Holiday Inn or School of Rock musical, Harvey Weinstein produces a Finding Neverland musical, and Warner produces a Beetlejuice, A Christmas Story, Willy Wonka or Elf musical, it's not because of the rich musical storytelling possibilities. It's because Disney did one. (Warner at one point wanted to do a Batman musical, but you can guess which musical superhero thwipped those plans.) And yeah, the movie sequel/reboots are made for pretty much the same reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 No, but I do know NETWORK has been turned into a 2017 farce starring reality show fop Donald Trump. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Yes. I did. And it's coming to Broadway........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zea Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Yes, I did as well. And if I should win the lottery I'd love to purchase tickets to see it. I think Cranston is superb and excels in almost any role or any genre. Plus I've always admired the works of Paddy Chayefsky, a great wordsmith of realism and current culture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 VarietyVerified accout @Variety Tatiana Maslany joins Bryan Cranston in #Network on Broadway https://variety.com/2018/legit/news/tatiana-maslany-bryan-cranston-broadway-network-1202935126/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 On 9/7/2018 at 10:52 AM, Zea said: Yes, I did as well. And if I should win the lottery I'd love to purchase tickets to see it. I think Cranston is superb and excels in almost any role or any genre. Plus I've always admired the works of Paddy Chayefsky, a great wordsmith of realism and current culture. Yeah, not too shabby for a Canoga Park California boy, huh! (...and here they say there's nothing of great artist merit that ever comes out of The Golden State!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 It was on at the National Theatre when I was in London, but it didn't appeal to me, so I didn't go. A couple of my friends didn't like it -- but I think they were in the minority. It got excellent reviews. Directed by the very trendy Ivo van Hove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 VarietyVerified account@Variety Tony Goldwyn joins Bryan Cranston and Tatiana Maslany in Broadway's 'Network' https://variety.com/2018/legit/news/tony-goldwyn-broadway-network-bryan-cranston-1202959707/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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