Annie (2014)

Speaking as a musical fan:

WHY ARE THEY DOING OLD AND BARELY RELEVANT MUSICALS?

This is why even OTHER THEATER PEOPLE have such an outdated view of musicals in the first place! Fucking bastards!

...Annie is awesome.

ophelia, you're breaking my heart

The same reason why studios have been rebooting old and barely relevant franchises: FWEEEE MONEY!!!

also because if it was popular then it'll be even more popular now, because you have a built-in audience of fans ready to give you their money

or. you know. you could just say "FWEE MONEY"

ophelia, you're breaking my heart

You know this is going to give us a shocking amount of 'Spider-Man fighting Daddy Warbucks' jokes, do you.

Or Spider-Man fighting Django. The D is silent.

Sorry to the people who like Annie.

I'm just in a bad mood because Maleficent has barreled right into the "TOTALLY NOT ELPHABA" trap. They could have done SO MANY OTHER THINGS with Maleficent, but no.

Plus, I just don't know why ANNIE of all musicals. Literally ANYTHING ELSE would have been a less weird musical to adapt to film, but instead it's Annie which has no relevance to the other movies, musicals, or movie-musicals out recently. It's just, did they pick it out of a hat?

They're clearly updating it in order to parallel the current economic situation (or at least they think they can), so I guess that's why.

edited 28th Sep '13 8:20:11 PM by Mort08

Looking for some stories?

Thank god they adapted a musical Disney film; Sleeping Beauty; so in order to change the animated kid-orinated musical genre to a live-action older-targeted action film, i.e., Maleficent. This should've been also done with Annie, because not only they ignored the non-musical aspects of the original newspaper strips, but they kept the same thing with EVERY OTHER FUCKING ADAPTION. They could've changed the reboot's muscial genre into an adventure family film. NOT A FUCKING MUSICAL. They won't have a normal non-muscial film adaption from a musical until I die. I feel like i'm Roger Egbert here.

edited 28th Sep '13 8:55:00 PM by Hitman

MY EYES ARE SO CUTE THEY WILL KILL YOU

You probably don't want to be as caustic as "Mr. Egbert"

edited 28th Sep '13 9:14:46 PM by Tuckerscreator

Keep in mind though, making an original musical is hard. My mom pointed this out after I complained to her about Rocky: The Musical. (She likes Broadway.) The best investment is to base it on an existent property, preferably a film, or just revive an old one like Newsies.

That too.

edited 29th Sep '13 2:38:39 AM by johnnyfog

I'm a skeptical squirrel

Not to mention how most big-name musicals are already adaptations of something else, even going as far back to when it was even becoming an industry.

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.

Of course, you could always go down the jukebox musical route, or make a musical based on the works of a band.

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!

I thought jukebox musicals were the same thing as "musicals based on [X band]'s music." Or is one a subset of the other?

Why remake Annie? The one I encountered when I wasn't into my teens was good enough.

Why remake anything? Because $$$, that's why.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Didn't they do a Broadway revival of this recently? -checks- Yep.

Looking for some stories?

Not getting my $$$

Also because Quvenzhane Wallis is an exceptionally talented child actress and it'd be a pity not to use those talents.

idk, does there have to be any other reason to remake a movie you don't seem to want to see?

ophelia, you're breaking my heart

Because all that invested money, those actors and time spent into making it might be better used into original, more innovative projects?

Yep. Two for that is exactly my feelings on the matter.

Oh, come now, you all know Hollywood almost never invests in original and innovative ideas. Be reasonable here.

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.

It's kind of weird how hostile people are towards this movie.

I mean, wow, nobody was complaining when Phantom of the Opera or Les Miserables were adapted/remade.

It might be better spent, but it probably wouldn't.

Both of them were the first adaptations of the musical telling of the story, so they got more respect. By contrast, Annie has already had two musical films.