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It really grinds my gears that they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they'll be rewarded for it. Together, they'll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.
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You really think this is going to do gang busters? I’m not even convinced it will make the money back
Making films isn’t free, they have to have expenses. What do you want them to do, reduce the spending on the money laundering?
I really do. I think it will be more Lion King remake than Cats adaptation. But I'm ready to admit that I was wrong if people don't line up in droves for it. I think the first will do much better than the second, because a ton of people will say "the ending sucked. It just stopped without any resolution. And there wasn't even half the songs from Wizard of Oz."
What's worse is that it was in no way made public that this was a part 1.
And me, I’m still pissed at how much the play isn’t like the book. I would have loved to seen them adapt that.
The musical is a based on a book? TIL.
I wasn't interest in the stage performance or the movie but I liked the Baum books as a kid, I'll have to give it a look.
Yeah the book is much darker and more in depth. It gets into topics around class divides and suicide. Which is why when I went to see the play it was so jarring to me.
I used to work at a book store at the time it released, it was very popular. You expect a stage play to be more upbeat I guess, but basing the movie on the play based on the book, sounds like a complete miss
Anticipating Book > Film (musical?) > Play/Musical
Hopefully, what they padded the movie with is the contents — the politics — of the book. As u/MrVilliam said above:
they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they'll be rewarded for it. Together, they'll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.
It's not written by Baum, though.
Hopefully they take a nice fat loss on this!
It's crazy that a movie like this can cost more than the price of the entire Lord of the rings trilogy