MISS SAIGON next for Lee Daniels?
Producer Paula Wagner is taking on a big project, and she’s eyeing Lee Daniels to be her helmer. Wagner plans to turn the classic Broadway musical Miss Saigon into a motion picture with the show’s original producer, Cameron Mackintosh, on board to produce with her. Variety is reporting that she wants the Precious director (and future Oscar nominee?) to take the project.
Miss Saigon is a musical tragedy based on Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. The show follows two lovers, an American solider and a Vietnamese bar girl, before the fall of Saigon in 1975.
While I’m excited that a motion picture based on Miss Saigon is moving forward (it certainly is about time), I can’t help reminding Ms. Wagner that she needs to hire a choreographer to co-direct. There are some big dance numbers here and someone who can’t handle the movie musical is going to make a bad movie. (See Rent, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers.)
Luckily, Mr. Mackintosh is on board as a producer. Not executive producer. Not co-producer. He’s a producer. The movie-minded Wagner and the musical-minded Mackintosh could be enough to balance things out.
Now, how about T.V. Caprio as Kim?
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