Play news: Into the woods soon a disney film

This past week Disney announced plans to turn Into the Woods into a film with Rob Marshall (Memoirs of a Geisha) attached as director.

Rob Marshall is familiar with movie musicals, having directed the 1999 remake of Annie and the 2002 remake of Chicago. Into the Woods is the 1987 musical written by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.  The show weaves together all of the classic fairy tales from Little Red Hood to Cinderella to Rapunzel into a darker story, closer to that of the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson.

No cast is attached yet.  If you can’t wait for the movie to be released, there is a filmed version of the musical when it was on Broadway.


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