Back in 2001, we fell in love with Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge and now we have to prepare to do that all over it again. That’s because it was announced today that the man who brought it to the big screen is working with John Logan and Alex Timbers to adapt it for the stage.
As of now that is all we know, and Playbill says that they will make more announcements later on like who is starring it, when and where it will debut and what music will be included.
One question that is not in doubt is how much we are going to love it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zejyzr5vW3A
The first trailer is out for Netflix’s The Get Down, and no one does period pieces like Baz Luhrmann. The way he makes The Bronx look in the late ’70s is just beautiful. I just wish I was around my hometown then to experience the world he created for this series.
First off I will start by saying I loved Baz Luhrmann as a Judge on Dancing with the Stars and I kind of wish that he replaces one or at least all three of the judges that are currently on the show. The show had a much better feel and smoother without Len. It just didn’t seem like the Judges were as confrontational and Bruno was so much more subdued and tolerable. So maybe Len Goodman is the problem? Even though it is the other two I don’t like. What did you think of him as a Judge?
Now when it comes to the biases? I don’t think it was fair that Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Debi Mazar danced to the Roxanne version that was featured in Moulin Rouge. C’mon they were looking to win him over by dancing to that version, luckily he didn’t go for that and scored them with most of the other pack. Now the high scorer of the night, Mya had an unfair advantage when it comes to him. She was in the Lady Marmalade video (the only thing most of us know her for) from his movie Moulin Rogue, so he obviously worked with her before DWTS. I don’t think his scores should be counted for her because of that. What do you think?
Australia looks like a true epic and I can’t wait until November to see it. I have been waiting for a new Baz Luhrmann film since Moulin Rouge and looks like Australia is not going to disappoint.
Actor Russell Crowe said on Monday he quit an epic movie about the Australian outback co-starring Nicole Kidman because he doesn’t do “charity work” for major studios. The New Zealand-born Australian actor had been scheduled to star in the as-yet untitled film directed by Baz Luhrmann, but dropped out and was replaced by another Australian actor, Hugh Jackman, in June. At the time, no reason for the cast change was announced. “I just didn’t want to work on that movie in the type of environment that was being created because of the needs of the budget,” Crowe told reporters while promoting his new movie, director Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year,” in New York. “I do charity work, but I don’t do charity work for major studios.” The Luhrmann movie was due to begin production this month, but has been pushed back to February because of scheduling conflicts and budget debates with 20th Century Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter. A spokesman for 20th Century Fox had no immediate comment. Media reports have put the budget for the ambitious film at between $150 million (79 million pounds) and $175 million. Luhrmann, director of the hit musical “Moulin Rouge,” has described the film to Australian newspapers as a sweeping romance in the same vein as “Gone with the Wind” and on the scale of David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia.” He said the film would be set in Australia from the mid-1930s leading up to the Japanese bombing of the tropical northern city of Darwin in World War Two. Crowe and Kidman were scheduled to have starred together in another Australian movie, based on the novel “Eucalyptus,” but the project collapsed last year because of difficulties with the script. “It will come around when it’s supposed to come around,” Crowe said of filming a movie in Australia. “The unfortunate thing about the way the media works these days, before the idea is even really solidified in people’s heads it’s already front page news. The film business is very complicated.”
